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Adpositional phrase — An adpositional phrase is a linguistics term that includes (a) prepositional phrase(s) (which are usually found in head first languages like English) and (b) postpositional phrases (usually found in head final languages like Dutch). The… … Wikipedia
Preposition and postposition — Prepositions (or more generally, adpositions, see below) are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial relations (such as the English words in, under, toward) or serve to mark various… … Wikipedia
Grammatical case — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality … Wikipedia
Word order — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig … Wikipedia
Time Manner Place — (TMP) describes one possible ordering of adpositional phrases in sentences. *Example: ... yesterday, by car, to the store.Linguistic typology has observed that TMP order is common among Subject Object Verb (SOV) languages. Two common SOV… … Wikipedia
Place Manner Time — is a term used in linguistic typology to state the general order of adpositional phrases in a language s sentences: to the store by car yesterday .It would seem that it is common among SVO languages.Fact|date=June 2007 English, French, and… … Wikipedia
Ancient Egypt — was an ancient civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC [Only after 664 BC are dates secure. See Egyptian… … Wikipedia
Accusative case — The accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. It is a noun that is having… … Wikipedia
Dative case — The dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given, as in George gave Jamie a drink . In general, the dative marks the indirect object… … Wikipedia
Latin declension — Latin grammar Verb Conjugation Subjunctive by attraction Indirect Statement Declension Ablative Usages Dative Usages Latin is an inflected language, and as such has nouns, pronouns, and adjectives that must be declined in order to serve a… … Wikipedia
