There are around 100 prepositions in the English language. 1  Prepositions help to add details or facts to a sentence. 2  Prepositions modify nouns. 3  Prepositions work together with prepositional phrases. 4  A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun.
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Parker, and Wise Counties; it is the seat of Tarrant County. According to the 2015 census estimates, Fort Worth has a population of 833,319.
The city soon became known as âCowtown.â. When the railroad arrived in 1876, Fort Worth became a major shipping point for livestock, so the city built the Union Stockyards, two and a half miles north of the Tarrant County Courthouse, in 1887.