| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| preposition |
| in English, the part of speech embracing a small number of words used before nouns and pronouns to connect them to the preceding material, e.g., of, in, and about. Prepositions are a class that is typical of the structure of Indo-European languages, but similar classes are found in some other languages. |
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