Grammar Series - the Preposition

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE PREPOSITION The preposition is a peculiar case No use on its own by itself with no function It needs an attachment to have any place Alone would decease, be due extreme unction Now some words may act without others at hand Such as Nouns as a labels and verbs as imperatives E.g. LADIES or GENTLEMEN and Sit! or Stand! Independent with neither associates nor relatives But the preposition needs some things to relate To connect the verb with a noun, phrase or clause To bring them together unite and collate In that it has a noble cause In days of old when they spoke in tongues classical The use of the preposition they would scorn They had case endings for same purpose grammatical So you could even say it need never have been born But while you don't need 'to', 'of' or 'by' or 'with When you've dative, genitive and ablative Old prep does the job, should have respect accorded And it brings words together so for that should be lauded