Prepositional idioms
What is the meaning of the idiom, "in a daze"?
What is unable to think clearly
Which construction (stranding vs. fronting) is more common in spoken English?
What is stranding
Which of these sentences has a grammaticized preposition? “My favorite novel was written by Stephen King.” and “My favorite novel was located by the counter at the bookstore.”
What is “My favorite novel was written by Stepehn King.”
Aboard can be used as a preposition or adverb
What is true
A grammatical category that usually precedes a noun or pronoun and can express a relation to a different part of speech.
What is a preposition
Fill in the blank "____ mint condition
What is in
In this sentence is the preposition stranded or fronted?: The girl he gave the book to has already read it.
What is stranded
T or F: The sentence “The vacation to Paris was fun” has the grammaticized preposition “to,” since the sentence could be re-written as “The vacation around Paris was fun.”
What is false
“She decided to give her old clothes to charity”.
Is “give” a verb or preposition in this sentence.
What is a verb
Traditional prepositions convey ____ in a sentence
What is relations to space and time
What is wrong with this idiom: "at the right track"
What is at should be replaced with on
What makes a preposition stranded?
What is: the preposition falls after its understood object without any object directly after it
What grammatical preposition would best fit the phrase “My favorite work ___ hers is her role in Legally Blond.”
What is "of"
In the sentence “He sat down on the bench” , down is
What is a preposition
True or False: Prepositions show inflection.
What is false
What is an idiom that contains the word "air" and means that something is uncertain?
What is "up in the air"
Change the sentence to have the preposition stranded rather than fronted: The man to whom I gave my resume hired me.
What is the man I gave my resume to hired me.
T or F: When a preposition marks the complement of the verb (as seen in the sentence “I transferred the money to you”), the preposition is grammatical as it cannot be separated from the verb.
What is true
In the sentence “She carefully climbed down the ladder”, down is
What is an adverb
The function of a preposition is _____?
What is head of a wide range of dependents, usually dependants of either nouns or verbs
What is the meaning of the idiom, “for the birds”?
What is meaningless or worthless?
Change the sentence to have the preposition fronted rather than stranded: Who did you get that book from?
What is: From whom did you get that book?
Which preposition listed below is never considered a “grammaticized preposition:” as, at, by, for, from, behind, in, with
What is "behind"
Consider the word “aloof”. Is the word a preposition or adjective? Give an example why.
What is an adjective? Preposition license objects, adjectives are gradable, adjectives are related to a predicand
Verbs of motion such as head and dart obligatorily license what?
What are direction-denoting preposition phrase complements.