verb
- present participle of prepose; to place or put before or in front of something else
Usage: formal; linguistics
noun
- the act or process of placing a word, phrase, or element before another in a sentence or utterance
Usage: linguistics; grammar
Examples
- In English, preposing the object is common in questions: 'Which book did you read?'
- The linguist studied preposing as a syntactic phenomenon across different languages.
- Preposing the adverbial phrase changes the emphasis of the sentence.
- The grammar lesson covered preposing and its effects on word order.
- By preposing the negative element, the speaker creates a more emphatic statement.
- Preposing is a technique used in rhetoric to draw attention to specific information.