A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

shows the relationship between an object (the object of a preposition) and other words in the sentence. eg. in my house

shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another noun or pronoun.

an adposition that occurs before its complement

a part of speech which grants position to an object or an action

a type of adposition Speech - The faculty or act of speaking That doesn't protect the homosexuals right to marry