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POSTPOSE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they postpose ... he / she / it postposes
Past simple: postposed
Past participle: postposed
-ing form: postposing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Place after another constituent in the sentence
Example:
Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "postpose" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
postposition ((linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached))
