List of English prepositions
- List of English prepositions
This is a list of English prepositions. In English, some prepositions are short, typically containing five letters or fewer. There are, however, a significant number of multi-word prepositions. Throughout the history of the English language, new prepositions have come into use, old ones fallen out of use, and the meaning of existing prepositions changed. Nonetheless, the prepositions are by and large a closed class.
Single words
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Multi words
Two words
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*"" (contracted as "into")
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Three words
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Archaic or infrequently used
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Not fully grammaticalised
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Preposition-like modifiers of quantified noun phrases
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Postpositions
*"" as in "five years ago", sometimes considered an adverb rather than a postposition
*"" as in "this apart", also used prepositionally ("apart from this")
*"" as in "such examples aside", also used prepositionally ("aside from such examples")
*"" as in "five light years away", sometimes considered an adverb or an adjective rather than a postposition
*"" as in "five years hence", sometimes considered an adverb rather than a postposition
*"" also used prepositionally
*"" as in "five years on", also used prepositionally
*"" as in "the whole night through", also used prepositionally
*"" archaic as a postposition meaning "with"
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