"in"

As I learned in the third grade, a preposition is, "anything the little bird can do to the house." It can fly over the house, around the house, to the house, through the house.

Prepositions introduce a prepositional phrase, which is a unit of information. Often that information is unnecessary. Out of the roughly 145 prepositions in English, one introduces more unnecessary phrases than the other 144 combined: in. I don’t know why; it’s just an observation.

The Bikram Trust Company is in the process of liquidating the assets.

In fact, the only way the list could convey property would be to . . . .

The court in that case held that it did not, finding instead that . . .

They were, in a word, methodical, which is what Daubert requires.

I am outlining the steps Henderson must follow in order to effect . . . .

Federal agencies codified procedures in an attempt to . . . .

Thank you in advance for your prompt response.

The preposition “in” will be the first word in a short burst of information that often is irrelevant.