Noun
Any
of
a
class
of
non-inflecting
words
typically
employed
to
connect
a
following
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
.
Verb
To
place
in
a
location
before
some
other
event
occurs
.