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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.

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prepositions

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˌpɹɛ.poʊ.ˈzɪ.ʃənz/Used In Literature ↓

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always

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Poetry examples for prepositions

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.