We all have our pet peeves, those annoying phrases and usages that fiendishly, and sometimes inexplicably, drive us to distraction. Like fat, late-autumn flies, they buzz lazily around the rafters … ...

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 ...

Using a preposition phrase as the wh-phrase in an open interrogative content clause is always strikingly awkward (I didn’t know from which book I should quote is far worse than I didn’t know ...

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.