Prepositions are permissible, now — will English language be ok? NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam- ...

Merriam-Webster had touched on a stubborn taboo — the practice of ending sentences with prepositions such as to, with, about, upon, for or of — that was drilled into many of us in grade school ...

The ‘Rule’ Against Ending Sentences With Prepositions Has Always Been Silly. March 7, 2024. Credit... Pablo Delcan. Share full article. By John McWhorter. Opinion Writer.

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 connect people and things in a sentence. Learn about prepositions of place and time with BBC Bitesize Spanish. For students between the ages of 14 and 16.

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

Prepositions are notoriously unstable. That is, the particular term used in a given expression is subject to long-term change in a process I call “preposition creep.” In recent years, for ...

In a post on Instagram last week, Merriam-Webster has found itself dividing commenters by asserting that it is permissible for a sentence to end in a preposition. Peter Sokolowski from Merriam ...