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Preposition

Prepositions function as connectors relating words within a sentence, conveying location, time, or direction. Prepositions link to other words and express spatial or temporal relations. Prepositions and prepositional phrases perform six primary grammatical functions including prepositional phrase head, noun phrase modifier, adjective phrase complement, verb phrase complement, adjunct adverbial, and disjunct adverbial.

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Preposition

Prepositions function as connectors relating words within a sentence, conveying location, time, or direction. Prepositions link to other words and express spatial or temporal relations. Prepositions and prepositional phrases perform six primary grammatical functions including prepositional phrase head, noun phrase modifier, adjective phrase complement, verb phrase complement, adjunct adverbial, and disjunct adverbial.

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Prepositions function as connectors, relating one word to another within a sentence.

They allow a speaker or writer to express the link between separate items. Prepositions can

convey information about location, time, or direction or provide details.

The noun phrase or pronoun that follows the preposition is called the object of the
preposition. For example, “under the table” is a prepositional phrase where under is the
preposition and the noun phrase the table acts as the object of the preposition.

grammar defines prepositions as words that “link to other words, phrases, and clauses” and
that “express spatial or temporal relations.” Prepositional phrases are phrases that consist of a
preposition plus another word, phrase, or clause functioning as a prepositional complement.
Prepositions and prepositional phrase perform six primary grammatical functions within
sentences in the English language. The seven primary functions of prepositions and
prepositional phrases are:

 Prepositional phrase head


 Noun phrase modifier
 Adjective phrase complement
 Verb phrase complement
 Adjunct adverbial
 Disjunct adverbial

A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition plus another phrase or clause that functions as
the prepositional complement. For example, in the library, for a reason and so forth.

A noun phrase modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies or describes a noun
including a noun phrase. For example, passion for reading, love of the game, fear of flying and
so forth.

An adjective phrase complement is a word, phrase, or clause that completes the meaning of
an adjective phrase. For example, fond of bananas, afraid of falling down the stairs and so on.
A verb phrase complement is a word, phrase, or clause that completes the meaning of a verb
phrase. For example, listen to the music, approve of my plan.

A disjunct adverbial provides additional information to frame an entire clause. For example,
In my opinion, learning about grammar is fun. For the love of goodness, the children need to
stop whining.

As for prepositions in Georgian language, Georgian prepositions link nouns, pronouns and
phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is
called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples: magidis kvesh, chem gamo,
chemtan ertad and so forth. Common Georgian prepositions are : mde, viT, tan, gamo, garda,
mde.

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