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 ...

Late last month, Merriam-Webster shared the news on Instagram that it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition. Hats off to them, sincerely. But it is hard to convey how bizarre, to an almost comical ...

An email writer recently took me to task for my “atrocious” grammar. Later, I learned that my specific transgression is the occasional use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. We are not born ...

Dear Mr. Lederer: Last week I was going to send you an email regarding the ending of a sentence with a preposition. And then your column appeared with the headline “Readers submit snappy sniglets to ...

I received two queries which I will discuss this week. The first one is from a regular reader of this column: Is the use of ‘for’ in the following sentences correct? a. For emergency contact number ...

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 ...

Prepositions are short words and phrases that give information about place, time and manner, eg: 'on', 'under', 'near', 'below', 'by', 'at', 'in' You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together ...

An email writer recently took me to task for my “atrocious” grammar. Later I learned that my specific transgression is the occasional use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. We are not born ...