English Prepositional Idioms

adjectival adjective adjunct adverb amongst British English cause child colloquial English concerned construction course D. H. Lawrence David Copperfield denote difficulty direct object enemy express the idea face fact father favour feel followed friends gerund give holiday idiom idiomatic indicate the person indicate the thing infinitive intransitively keep kind litotes live look matter means Merchant of Venice metaphorically never normally Note noun clause occasion one's hands oneself opinion opposite idea participial particular passive voice phrase play position possessive adjective pounds preposition pronoun purpose reason reference regard result road Rupert Brooke Ruritania sense sentence Shakespeare side Similarly slang someone sometimes speak specified spoken English story suggests task thing in question thought tion town transitive transitive verb trouble turn usually verb verbal verbal noun wish word