Short, sweet and loose

Sorry if I lured you into reading under false and salacious pretenses.  Actually, that’s not true.  I did it on purpose.  But keep reading.  The post is what’s short and hopefully sweet, but what’s loose? 

In praise of prepositions

Prepositions may be the most under-appreciated part of speech, yet one of the most important.  They appear almost everywhere, yet so few people notice them.  And every preposition has an object, more than you can say for many things or people.