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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 clubEnglish rarely adds new ones, unlike verbs or nouns
fake ruleending sentences with them was always perfectly fine
space and timemost map physical relations before going abstract
learner nightmarein, on, at resist all logic and reasoning
tiny giantsamong the most frequent words ever spoken