Re: Prepositions

Quoting Colin Halverson <CHalvrson@...>:

> Could anyone send me a list of all the prepositions in English? (if its
> not  in innumerable measure??)  takk
This website

<http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammar/preposit.htm>

gives a fairly large list of English prepositions:

"aboard, about, above, according to, across, across from, after,
against, along, alongside, alongside of, along with, amid, among,
apart from, around, aside from, at, away from, back of, because of,
before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond,
but, by, by means of, concerning, considering, despite, down, down
from, during, except, except for, excepting for, from, from among,
from between, from under, in, in addition to, in behalf of, in front
of, in place of, in regard to, inside, inside of, in spite of, instead
of, into, like, near, near to, of, off, on, on account of, on behalf
of, onto, on top of, opposite, out, out of, outside, outside of,
over, over to, owing to, past, prior to, regarding, round, round
about, save, since, subsequent to, together, with, through, throughout,
till, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, up to, upon,
with, within, without"

What would certainly be *much* smaller is a list of English
postpositions -- didn't we determine some time back that
English doesn't really have any? I think we agreed that
"asunder" is more of an adverb.

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