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What is the definition of an object of a preposition?

Answer:

The object of a preposition is the word or phrase that the preposition immediately refers to.

For example, in the sentence:

Mary hid under the table.

"under" is a preposition, and "the table" is its object.

The object usually comes straight after the preposition, but sometimes it appears before. Compare these two sentences:

In whose name shall I book the table?
Whose name shall I book the table in?

In both sentences, "in" is a preposition, and "whose name" is the object of that preposition.

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