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a tiny word that bosses around everything bigger than it.
means A word that links a noun or pronoun to the rest of a sentence, marking relationships of place, time, direction, or manner — like 'in,' 'on,' 'under,' 'before,' and 'with.'
from From Latin 'praepositio,' literally a 'placing before' — from 'prae' (before) plus 'positio' (a placing, from 'ponere,' to put). The name describes the job: these words were typically set down before the nouns they govern. It came into English through Old French in the medieval period, the term arriving as part of the Latin grammatical toolkit that scholars used to dissect their own tongue.
- closed club
- English rarely adds new ones, unlike verbs or nouns
- fake rule
- ending sentences with them was always perfectly fine
- space and time
- most map physical relations before going abstract
- learner nightmare
- in, on, at resist all logic and reasoning
- tiny giants
- among the most frequent words ever spoken