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Verb vs Preposition - What's the difference?

verb | preposition |

In grammar terms the difference between verb and preposition

is that verb is a word that indicates an action, event, or state while preposition is any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or 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.

In obsolete terms the difference between verb and preposition

is that verb is any word; a vocable while preposition is a proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

verb

English

(wikipedia verb)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
    • The word “speak” is an English verb .
  • (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
    • (South)

    Usage notes

    Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.

    Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 221 *: Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adverb * anomalous verb * auxiliary verb * boot verb * copular verb * coverb * defective verb * ditransitive verb * dynamic verb * full verb * helping verb * impersonal verb * intransitive verb * irregular verb * linking verb * modal verb * passive verb * phrasal verb * preverb * reflexive verb * regular verb * serial verb * stative verb * subject-verb agreement * transitive verb * verb inflection * verb phrase * verb tense * verbal * verbal complement * verbal noun * verbal regency * verbless clause

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
  • * a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language'', in ''New York Times , pSM3
    • Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
  • * 1997 , David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX , p8
    • Nouns should never be verbed .
  • * 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters'', in ''The Christian Science Monitor , p8
    • In English, verbing nouns is okay
  • To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
  • * 1946 : Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
    • For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
  • * 1964 : Journal of Mathematical Psychology
    • Each sentence had the same basic structure: ''The subject transitive verbed''' the object who intransitive '''verbed in the location''.
  • * 1998 : Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
    • The sentence frame was ''Dan verbed Ben approaching the store''. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by ''He went inside''.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "verb")

    See also

    * * copula * auxiliary verb * main verb English autological terms ----

    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 ----