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What part of speech is word by?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 10/8/2021

"By" is usually a preposition, but it can also be a part, sometimes called a "separable suffix", of a compound verb, as in, "stand by", meaning to wait. (Some persons, who do not accept that English has compound verbs with separable suffixes, would call "by" in "stand by" an adverb.)

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Isaiah Mohr

Lvl 10
4y ago

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