Even an inflected tongue like Latin, in which a single case-ending could indicate by, with or from, had plenty of prepositions as well.

ECONOMIST: Johnson

" Never in my life have I heard so many prepositions, as in "Best get that book on up off of my desk.

NPR: Teaching in a Forgotten Part of America

And I think, you know, if you're thinking about those prepositions or if you're at the level of wondering which preposition to use it's a good sign.

NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

Know the commutative law and all the prepositions.

FORBES: How Do You Study To Get An 'A' In A Difficult Class?

In just 19 words, it provides an impressive selection of current widespread writing woes: dangling modifier ("vestiges" didn't walk in the front door), poor word choice ("vestiges, " "domesticity, " "regardless"), excessive prepositions (four in all) and an underappreciated but pervasive ill, a weak sentence-subject ("vestiges").

WSJ: Word Craft: Ben Yagoda on Not Writing Badly

They considered whether what we call prepositions occur before or after a noun ("in the boat" versus "the boat in") and how the word order of subject and object work out in either case ("I put the dog in the boat" versus "I the dog put the canoe in").

BBC: Language universality idea tested with biology method