In the biggest grammar news since the advent of the Oxford comma, the dictionary dignitaries at Merriam-Webster have declared it acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition.

One of the problems that I face consistently is the use of prepositions. I understand the big rules for in/on/at, but there are times that no American native can explain while one would use in, on ...

Prepositions: The super-handy and horribly confusing widgets of language To, from, of, by: The little linguistic bits that we use to fit in gaps and hold things together or keep them apart.

A good exposure to the language helps non-native speakers use prepositions idiomatically but native speakers of English acquire mastery of the idiomatic use of prepositions unconsciously.

By removing the prepositions, we can make them grammatically acceptable. The expression ‘what … for’ means ‘why’ and the preposition ‘for’ can occur at the end of the sentences as in ...

Gareth Rees answers the question from Lucy in Taiwan about the use of prepositions in questions. Ask about English 03 March 2009 ...

UNGRAMMATICAL USE OF PREPOSITIONS By Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo, Coordinator of Students and University Relations, University of Applied Management (UAM), Germany – Ghana Campus, McCarthy ...

When the noun forms of these verbs are used, the appropriate prepositions become mandatory in many cases. Let us use the same sentences above as illustrations: ...

The use of correct words and specially the usage of preposition in sentences by the Indian students have really been annoying.

Gareth Rees answers the question from Lucy in Taiwan about the use of prepositions in questions. Ask about English 03 March 2009 ...