A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a preposition is a case in point. ... and there, for example, are all best treated as prepositions that don’t take complements.

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Merriam-Webster says yes The dictionary publisher's guidance on the practice has people riled up. Grammarians say the made-up rule is one big waste of time.

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 ...

English Has a New Preposition, ... When I say, for example, "The talks broke down because politics," I'm not just describing a circumstance. I'm also describing a category.

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.

An example of the helping-professions kind of thing is this quote from Lillian B. Rubin’s 1976 book Worlds of Pain: “For all women, the issues around being a ‘working mother’ are complex ...

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 ...