Adposition

In grammar, an adposition is a word or affix which shows a word's grammatical function.

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The three types of adposition are prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions. Prefixes and suffixes can also take on these roles: the Basque allative (motion towards) postposition is the suffix -ra: etxera = "to the house".

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Phrases with an adposition as head are called adpositional phrases: prepositional phrases and postpositional phrases.

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Affix: An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed....