The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe. Placing a preposition at the end of a sentence might be a breach of linguistic etiquette ...

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The sheer awkwardness of the idea that English should not end sentences with prepositions is captured in the fact Lowth himself wrote, when arguing against it, “This is an idiom which our ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam-Webster declaration that English sentences may end with prepositions.

T he sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving this fake grammar rule a particular distinction: Its ...

And so is that so-called grammar rule about ending sentences with prepositions. If that previous sentence bugs you, by the way, you’ve bought into another myth.

Hardly anything discovered by linguists about language makes it through to presentations of grammar to the general public, Geoff Pullum says. A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a ...

In grammar, a word belongs to a class if it has the properties of that class. A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement.

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet Linguists are recognizing the delightful evolution of the word "because." By Megan Garber November 19, 2013 ...

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