Prepositional vs Nonprepositional - What's the difference?
prepositional | nonprepositional |
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
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(grammar) Of the prepositional case.
As adjectives the difference between prepositional and nonprepositional
is that prepositional is of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition while nonprepositional is not prepositional.As a noun prepositional
is the prepositional case.prepositional
English
Adjective
(-)- Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of'':
(80) (a) He stayed at home ''because'' [of the strike]
(80) (b) He fell ''out'' [of the window]
(80) (c) Few people ''outside'' [of the immediate family] know
(80) (d) %It fell ''off [of the table] (dialectal)