English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to ...

The non-traditional discourse marking use of “like” seems to have developed from its use as a preposition or conjunction, deriving from its value in expressing similarity or approximation (e.g ...

A version of this article appears in print on March 9, 2024, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Against the Sentence-Ending Preposition Rule.

The idea that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition is an idle pedantry that I shall not put UP WITH." Another called back to those rule books, saying, "I'd like to formally request a ...