NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam-Webster declaration that English sentences may end with prepositions.

The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

The sheer awkwardness of the idea that English should not end sentences with prepositions is captured in the fact Lowth himself wrote, when arguing against it, “This is an idiom which our ...

And how dare people who embrace such beliefs rub it in the noses of those who don’t? Well, I think I’ve figured it out. It’s simple, really – it’s a problem of prepositions.

Prepositions are placed at the end of the questions above. If these questions are organized in such a way that we avoid placing prepositions at the end, the questions would sound rather awkward.

Hardly anything discovered by linguists about language makes it through to presentations of grammar to the general public, Geoff Pullum says. A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a ...

The whole notion about “dangling” prepositions traces back to a tossed-off remark by poet John Dryden in 1672, although what seems to have truly set the “rule” in stone is A Short ...

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

PREPOSITIONS form a pretty exclusive club. Unlike nouns and verbs, of which there are squillions each, Wikipedia lists over a hundred modern one-word prepositions, a few two-word ("next to") and ...