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 ...
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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 ...
An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...
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 ...
When I started writing this column in the early aughts, people would say it’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. They said it to me — every time I did it. This idea was one of many myths that ...
When I first started writing this column in the early aughts, readers would often complain to me about sentence-ending prepositions. Or, to put that ironically: Sentence-ending prepositions were ...