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Interjection vs Preposition - What's the difference?

interjection | preposition |

As nouns the difference between interjection and preposition

is that interjection is (grammar) an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion while preposition is preposition.

interjection

English

(wikipedia interjection)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
  • *
    • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
    (21) (a)      ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
    (21) (b)    ?''Bill     , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
  • An interruption; something interjected

    • Related terms

    * interject * interjectional

    See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----

    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)
  • (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.
  • *
    • 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 —?
  • (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
  • * (rfdate),
    • He made a long preposition and oration.
    Hypernyms
    * adposition
    Coordinate terms
    * circumposition * postposition
    Derived terms
    * preposition of time * preposition of place * prepositional * prepositionally * prepositional phrase
    Related terms
    * prepose * prepositive

    See also

    * preverb

    Etymology 2

    From pre- + position

    Alternative forms

    * pre-position

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a location before some other event occurs.
    • It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
    English heteronyms ----