I did look it up. de wasn&#x27;t nearly so bad, managing only a few inches of space. «faire» was the worst of the French words I could think up, squeezing out around a page.<p>The problem with English prepositions is that much of their usage isn&#x27;t really analyzable as prepositions. &quot;to put&quot;, &quot;to put up&quot;, and &quot;to put up with&quot; are all effectively three different verbs, and those prepositions are usually better analyzed as particles. However, grade school English grammar tends to be derived from attempts to analyze English according to traditional Greek grammar, which turns out to work poorly in practice (and hence, everything you learned in English class is probably wrong).