adjective
- placed or positioned before something else, especially in grammar or word order
Usage: linguistics term
verb
- past tense and past participle of prepose; to place or move something to an earlier position
Usage: linguistics, formal
Examples
- In the sentence 'Carefully, she walked home,' the adverb is preposed.
- The linguist preposed the object to study word-order variation.
- Preposed adjectives in English typically come before the noun they modify.
- The researcher preposed the temporal phrase to emphasize the timing.
- Some languages allow preposed objects that English does not.