(n): a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
(n): (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
(n): an item on a list or in a sequence
Hives give me hives.
This page gives me hives.
What did you bring that book I did not want to be read to out of up for?
The Naughty Preposition
--Morris Bishop
I lately lost a preposition:
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor;
And yet I wondered: "What should he come
Up from out of in under for?"
This rule is something up with which we should not put.
A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.