Sentence examples for object of the preposition from inspiring English sources

They begin prepositional phrases, which always include a noun as the object of the preposition.

Make it "whom," object of the preposition.

The real object of the preposition "in" is the gerund "keeping".

In Scalia's dissent in the Texas sodomy case, promoting is a gerund, the object of the preposition against.

"Distribution" is a noun, and syntactically it belongs with "shipment," also a noun, as an object of the preposition "for".

The object of the preposition is not "whomever," but rather the entire relative clause — "on whoever is at hand".

When the clause is the object of a preposition: The teacher will base his decision on whether the car has been repaired.

But Good acknowledges the overriding rule of usage: "You'll go further in life by violating the rule of pronoun case and saying, 'It was me".' Now to his title, using the preposition for: a noun that is the object of a preposition requires the objective case (like me, him, her), and so the correct formal use is also the common usage: "A Grammar Book for You and Me".

(No colon after "example").. Remember this as well: Do not use a colon to introduce a list that is the complement of a verb or the object of a preposition.

A noun may be used as the subject of a verb, the object of a verb, an identifying noun, the object of a preposition, or an appositive (an explanatory phrase coupled with a subject or object ).

"Awhile" should not be used as the object of a preposition, so constructions like "for awhile" or "in awhile" are wrong.