Phrases are in bold; objects of preposition are italicized. In 2016 (answering the question “when”) and for the first time (answering the question “under what condition”). Both are adverbial ...

A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement. And so in "Notwithstanding the rain, it was an excellent night out", "notwithstanding" can only be a ...

It's a usage, in other words, that is exceptionally bloggy and aggressively casual and implicitly ironic. And also highly adaptable. Carey has unearthed instances of the "because-noun ...

A preposition phrase begins with a preposition. It could be a preposition of time , place or direction . So a preposition phrase starts with words such as ‘at’, ‘on’, ‘during’, ‘up ...

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.

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 ...