Late last month, Merriam-Webster shared the news on Instagram that it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition. Hats off to them, sincerely. But it is hard to convey how bizarre, to an almost comical ...
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 and ...
The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from Merriam-Webster: "It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with," the dictionary publisher said in a post ...
Attention, grammar police and enthusiastic editors: "Because" is now a preposition — because Internet. Languages change over time to adapt to changes in our lifestyles. Now, linguists are starting to ...
This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put. The sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving ...
Imagine that the national government controlled education down to fine details of what to teach and how to test it, and in your own subject the government required that modern research should be ...
Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns to show a relation to them. English learners find prepositions difficult. These 10 rules will help clear your confusions. Download ...
Following is the first of several bi-weekly columns examining and comparing languages. Since the writer has studied only one modern foreign language, his column will need the assistance of the many ...
A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like 'after', 'before', 'on', 'under', 'inside' and 'outside'.