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.

Not only learners of English but also those who have learnt English as a second or foreign language and used it for many decades struggle to be accurate with their prepositions. When a phrase ...

The prepositions do not restrict themselves to a specific category since most are used in nearly all the categories. More importantly, prepositions neither have the plural, inflective (change in ...

Prepositions can provoke violent loyalty and outrage. John Rentoul has been taken to task by another colleague in the office for having written in this space last week that it "does not matter ...

Old Norse “strands” prepositions, and thus English started ... grammarian Ann Fisher dismissively stating in 1745 that just using “he” will do fine: “The Masculine Person answers to ...