Difference between Postpositive and Place

What is the difference between Postpositive and Place?

Postpositive as a noun is a postpositive modifier. while Place as a noun is a location or position.

Postpositive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those two men are bad.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A postpositive modifier.

Place

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A location or position.An open space, courtyard, market square.A group of houses.A region of a land.Somewhere for a person to sit.A frame of mind.A house or home.A role or purpose; a station.Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.The position of a contestant in a competition.The position as a member of a sports team.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put (an object or person) in a specific location.To earn a given spot in a competition.To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.To arrange for or to make (a bet).To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

Example sentence: The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

We hope you now know whether to use Postpositive or Place in your sentence.

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