--words commonly reckoned, (_in, on, of_, &c.,) used after infinitives
or participles, in adverbial construc., ("_Houses to eat and drink_
IN")
--_Prepositions_, List of
--grammarians differ considerably in their tables of; do. concerning
the characteristics of; what BROWN supposes, in oppos. to the
assertion that "Every _prep_. requires an obj. case after it"
--LENN. and BULL. on "_prepositions becoming adverbs_," criticised
--MURR. on "_prepositions_ appearing to be adverbs," criticised
--_Preposition_, whether it can be justly said to take a sent. for its
object
--_Prepositions_, words in the list of, sometimes used as other parts
of speech
--extension of the list of
--examples of the less usual, _a_, and others beginning with _a_
--do. of unusual ones beginning with _b, c_, or _d_
--_unusual_, quotations illustrating further the list of
--_Preposition_, RULE of synt. for the _word governed by_
--_Prepositions_, in Eng., govern no other case than the obj.; most,
may take the imperf. part. for their obj.
--The brief assertion, that "_Prepositions_ govern the obj. case,"
wherein is exceptionable as the sole rule for both terms
--_Prepositions_, ellipt. construc. of, with adjectives, (_in vain, in
secret_, &c.)
--sometimes appar. govern adverbs
--_Preposition_, appar. governing a perf. part., ("_To give it up_ FOR
LOST")
--_Prepositions_, Synt. of
--do., in what consists
--what RELATIONS, show; (see _To_ and _For_)
--the parsing of; why tolerable writers are liable to err most in their
use of
--_Preposition_, the true terms of the relat. of, how may be discovered
--when beginning or ending a sent. or clause, what the construc.
--the terms of relation of, what may be; both usually expressed
--position of, with respect to the governed word
--_Prepositions_, several, dependent on one anteced. term, ("_A
declaration_ FOR _virtue and_ AGAINST _vice_," BUTL.)
--two coming together between the same terms of relat.; do. in the same
construc.; erron. remark of PRIESTL., MURR., _et al._, concerning the
latter
--_Preposition_, the separating of, from its noun, false doctrine of
LOWTH, MURR., _et al._, concerning
--_Prepositions_, prop, choice of
--do., with respect to the allowable uses of
--as adapted in meanin