Prepositional Phrasings in Relationships

A preposition phrasing describes a relationship between the subject and object entities that includes prepositions. For example, the phrase patients are on medications (for illnesses) (at dosages) (for studies) allows the following questions to be answered by English Query:

• "Who is on medication X?"
  
  
• "Who is on medication for heart disease?"
  
  
• "Who is on medication for the XYZ study?"
  
  
• "Who is on medication X for the XYZ study for heart disease?"
  
  
• "Who is on medication X at 100 mg for heart disease for the XYZ study?"

Likewise, use prepositional phrasing to answer questions about geographical locations, such as "How many cabins are in the Sierra Nevada mountain range?" and "How many cabins are in the Southern Hemisphere?" You would set up the hierarchy to answer these questions with the following phrasings:

• cabins are on mountains
  
  
• mountains are in mountain ranges
  
  
• mountain ranges are in continents
  
  
• continents are in hemispheres

Words commonly used as prepositions include about, above, across, before, below, concerning, down, for, from, in, like of, on, over, past, regarding, since, through, till, to, toward, under, until, with, and without.

Phrasal prepositions include according to, along with, as to, because of, due to, in case of, in place of, instead of, up to, and with regard to.

See Also

Defining Relationship Phrasings

Expanding an English Query Model

Preposition Phrasing Dialog Box