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.

Prepositions in te reo live up to their name: that is, they are always "preposed". Whenever a preposition is used it's always the first word in a phrase. This means, of course, that there can be no ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

Winston Churchill famously rubbished this grammatical convention by demonstrating the tortuous English which could result - "This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put." Simon Blake, ...

A question from Lucy in Taiwan: Which of the following are correct? 1. What day is your birthday? 2. On what day is your birthday? 3. What day is the Christmas party? Hello Lucy. Thank you for your ...

Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun and something else in a sentence. Words like 'on', 'under' and 'inside', as well as phrases like 'next to', 'in front of', and 'on top ...

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