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Unit 5: Parts of Speech: Adjective and Preposition

join with a person or thing Notes

labor at a task
labor for a person, an end
labor in a cause
labor under disadvantages

live by labor
live for riches
martyr for (a cause)
martyr to (a disease, etc.)
at a moment’s notice
on the spur of the moment

negligent of (noun)
oblivious of (not to)
parallel with or to
part from (persons)

part with (things)
perpendicular to
point at a thing
point to a fact
possessed of wealth
possessed with an idea

prefer one to the other
preferable to
preference for
prevail against (things)

prevail upon (persons)
provide (someone) with (something)
profuse in
profusion of
provide against ill luck
provide for an emergency

pursuant to
in pursuance of
recommend that she do (not “recommend her to do”)
reconcile to (thing)

reconcile with (person)
regard as

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