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We are a team that aspires to win in every competition we compete in.
What part of speech is "in" in clause "we compete in"? Is it a preposition or an adverb?
In my opinion, it is a preposition.
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We are a team that aspires to win in every competition i we compete in ___ i . Yes, the final "in" is a preposition. It's called a 'stranded preposition' here since it has no noun phrase complement, though we understand the complement to be "every competition".
- We are a team that aspires to win in every competition i we compete in ___ i .
- Yes, the final "in" is a preposition.
- It's called a 'stranded preposition' here since it has no noun phrase complement, though we understand the complement to be "every competition".
- Notice that the missing noun phrase is represented by the '____' notation which is co-indexed with the element which supplies the interpretation, the antecedent, which in this case is the noun "competition".
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We are a team that aspires to win in every competitioni we compete in ___i .
Yes, the final "in" is a preposition. It's called a 'stranded preposition' here since it has no noun phrase complement, though we understand the complement to be "every competition".
Notice that the missing noun phrase is repres
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