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wha are prepositions

Prepositions are words that describe the relation between other words in a sentence. These are usually spatial and temporal relations. The word 'preposition' is formed by joining 'pre' and 'preposition'. They are generally placed before nouns or pronouns. For example:

The thief ran across the garden and jumped over the wall.

The words 'across' and 'over' tell relations between different words in the sentence and are placed before the nouns 'garden' and 'wall' respectively.

There are many kinds of prepositions. for example; prepositions of place, prepositions of time.

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Prepositions(or more generallyadpositions, see below) are a grammatically distinctclass of wordswhose most central members characteristically express spatial or temporal relations (such as the English wordsin,under,toward,before) or serve to mark various syntactic functions and semantic roles (such as the English wordsof,for).[1]In that the primary function is relational, a preposition typically combines with anotherconstituent(called itscomplement) to form aprepositional phrase, relating the complement to the context in which the phrase occurs.

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