preposition Definition

preposition
noun

1. grammar.
A word, or words, such as to, from, into, out of, etc, typically preceding nouns and pronouns, and describing their position, movement, etc in relation to other words in the sentence.

Derivative: prepositional
adj

Derivative: prepositionally
adverb

Etymology: 14c: from Latin praepositio, from praeponere, praepositum to put before.

Info:

In current English, a preposition can have various positions within a phrase, clause or sentence, and often comes at the end:

○ The notion still sometimes found, that a preposition should always come before the word or phrase it governs, is, like the split infinitive, an artificial rule that has no basis in usage or in principle. Often, especially in idiomatic uses, such a rule would produce absurd results:

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