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con-com-i-tant

adjective :: Accompanying; conjoined; attending.

noun :: One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment.

"It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust." --Hamilton, Alexander

A preposition links together an object with a phrase to act as an adjective or adverb. For example, in the sentence "She eats a jar of olives," the preposition is "of" and the object is "olives". Together they form the prepositional phrase "of olives," which acts as an adjective, modifying the noun "jar".

The prepositional phrase can also act as an adverb and modify a verb. For example, "The jar is on the table." In this case, the prepositional phrase "on the table" is modifying the verb "is".

Some of the most common prepositions include: about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, despite, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, since, through, throughout, till, to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within and without.

carp

verb :: To find fault or complain.

"Please don't carp at the quality of this sentence."

hom-i-le-tics

noun :: The art of preaching.

"The minister was very skilled in homiletics."

ser-ried

adj :: Crowded or pressed together. Compact.

"The troops marched in serried ranks."