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.

A grammar book written in the eighteenth century by another Latin scholar, Robert Lowth, further codified it, even though Lowth acknowledged that ending a sentence with a preposition suited English ...

Placing a preposition at the end of a sentence might be a breach of linguistic etiquette in certain venues, but it violates no essential and enduring law of the English language.

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

The word "because," in standard English usage, is a subordinating conjunction, which means that it connects two parts of a sentence in which one (the subordinate) explains the other. It can be ...

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

Prepositions and prepositional phrasesTrudi Faulkner-Petrova explains the difference between the phrases 'in the end' and 'at the end' Ask about English 1 September 2009 ...