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postpose

[pohst-pohz]

verb (used with object), -posed, -pos·ing. Grammar.

to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.”

Origin:
1925–30; post- + (pre)pose

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a paragraph mark.

a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:

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postpose
verb
place after another constituent in the sentence; "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them"

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