Postpose

Word POSTPOSE
Character 8
Hyphenation post pose
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Postpose"

What do we mean by postpose?

To place (a word or phrasal constituent) after another constituent in a sentence, as the direct object noun phrase all the interesting places he had visited in the sentence He described to them all the interesting places he had visited. transitive verb

To place after (something else).

To postpone; put off.

To postpone. transitive verb

To place a word or phrase after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it verb

To postpone. verb

Place after another constituent in the sentence verb

(grammar) To place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it

To postpone.

Proposing an action after already having completed it. Specifically in the case of asking permission for something you've already done. Sic. asking somebody for permission to do something you've already done. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Postpose

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The word "postpose" in example sentences

Based simply on the forms found, we must conclude with certainty that the word is overwhelmingly a noun since Etruscan adjectives, which postpose the nouns they modify just as in Modern French, for eg., are never declined unless used as nouns by themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One article I read said that children stick most closely to SOV order and only later after 10? begin to postpose. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I immediately thought of Turkish, which is typologically SOV, but in the colloquial language it's not uncommon to postpose one nominal constituent which may be longer than one word after the verb. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Now we are stuck, New Orleans hangs like an albatross around our necks to the point where we have to postpose the convention simply because a hurricane is going to make landfall somewhere in the vicinty of New Orleans. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Myhome is in foreclosure. given the state of the economy, why don’t they postpose all foreclosues until the economy gets a bit more stable…it would keep me in my home if I could work with the lender and they wouldn’t get my home back – it could be good for everyone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I postposed to my roommate that I borrow her computer for [the afternoon] after [filling] it with sand when my [etch-a-sketch] broke. ❋ The Eighth Empire (2008)

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