In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage.

The Austin, Texas, fire chief is being accused of denying requests to send rescuers to Kerrville days before the catastrophic ...

“It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with,” the publishing company located in Springfield wrote in an Instagram post last week.

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

Emmerdale fans beg one character to "go with their gut" after John Sugden proposed to boyfriend Aaron Dingle during Tuesday's (18th March) episode.

In a post on Instagram last week, Merriam-Webster has found itself dividing commenters by asserting that it is permissible for a sentence to end in a preposition. Peter Sokolowski from Merriam ...

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 ...

PREPOSITIONS form a pretty exclusive club. Unlike nouns and verbs, of which there are squillions each, Wikipedia lists over a hundred modern one-word prepositions, a few two-word ("next to") and ...

Prepositions are handy things, cementing the relationship between parts of a sentence. In the sentence “He was caught between a rock and a hard place,” for example, the preposition “between” connects ...

The whole notion about “dangling” prepositions traces back to a tossed-off remark by poet John Dryden in 1672, although what seems to have truly set the “rule” in stone is A Short ...