Asumption vs Preposition - What's the difference?
asumption | preposition |
(grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival]] or [[adverb, adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
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(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
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To place in a location before some other event occurs.
As a noun preposition is
preposition.asumption
Not English
Asumption has no English definition. It may be misspelled.preposition
English
(wikipedia preposition)Etymology 1
From (etyl) praepositio'', from ''praeponere'' (to place before); ''prae'' (before) + ''ponere'' (to put, place); compare French ''''. (See position, and compare provost.) So called because it is usually placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in .Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition , the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT:
(121) (a) [To whom''] can I send this letter —?
(121) (b) [''About what''] are they quarrelling —?
(121) (c) [''In which book ] did you read about it —?
- He made a long preposition and oration.
Hypernyms
* adpositionCoordinate terms
* circumposition * postpositionDerived terms
* preposition of time * preposition of place * prepositional * prepositionally * prepositional phraseSee also
* preverbEtymology 2
From pre- + positionAlternative forms
* pre-positionVerb
(en verb)- It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.