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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Preposition - Postposition - Circumposition - Basque - Allative
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Phrases with an adposition as head are called adpositional phrases: prepositional phrases and postpositional phrases.
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Phrase - Head - Adpositional phrase - Prepositional phrase - Postpositional phrase
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