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.

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

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 ...

AN English teacher in Iran, Farhad H., recently sent me e-mail asking this very interesting question about preposition usage: “I often have difficulty when it comes to the difference between the ...

The paper intends to trace the four hundred years of the history of English grammar writing with special reference to English prepositions. It provides the reader with some of the most influential ...

The prepositions 'in', 'on' and 'at' can be useful when we're talking about time and location.

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.

Do you know when to use the prepositions 'in' 'on' 'by' and 'with'? Take our English quiz on prepositions... T he good old Wren and Martin describes the preposition as "a word used with a noun or ...

Test your understanding of prepositions of place using sentences about the Australian coastline.

Image: Do you know the correct use of prepositions? Do you know when to use the prepositions 'in' 'on' 'by' and 'with'? Take our English quiz on prepositions... The good old Wren and Martin ...