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Pre`pose´
v. t.1.To place or set before; to prefix.
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Verb1.prepose - place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
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Note that any of the expressions in (34) may be identified by preposing the, giving: 35) (a) (b) the 'one rabbit the 'rabbit the 'two rabbits} the 'five rabbits} the 'twenty rabbits} the 'rabbits the 'many rabbits} the 'few rabbits} Since the simply precedes everything else in (35), we might expect the a 'rabbit.
The articles in English (1) by Dixon, R.M.W. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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Putting tags in a syntactically interruptive medial position rather than preposing them creates the impression of a dynamic verbal exchange whose pace is not unnecessarily slowed down by the initial reporting verb (Collins 2001).
Is reanimation of voices possible? Pragmatics of reported speech in ... by Wlodarczyk Matylda / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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