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POSTPOSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place after another constituent in the sentence

Example:

Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "postpose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

postposition ((linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached))

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