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preposition
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preposition, in English, the part of speech part of speech, in traditional English grammar , any one of about eight major classes of words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Latin. The parts of speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun .
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 embracing a small number of words used before nouns and pronouns to connect them to the preceding material, e.g., of, in, and about. Prepositions are a class that is typical of the structure of Indo-European languages, but similar classes are found in some other languages.


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In the Spanish version, which Dorfman translated from the English, this practice necessarily changes since Spanish does not allow flexibility in the use of contractions: there are two required forms that are prepositional phrases.
OK, so nobody has told these people not to end a sentence in a prepositional phrase.
Waetjen looks at the double prepositional phrase in Rom 1:17 that is conventionally translated as "through faith for faith" or something similar.
 
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