This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put. The sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving ...

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Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster found itself in hot water recently after weighing in on an age-old grammatical debate. In an Instagram post, Merriam-Webster said it is "permissible" for people ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. “People hustle their way at the avenue, as the majority crossed onto the other side. Yellow-shirted men on navy blue pants ...

Following is the first of several bi-weekly columns examining and comparing languages. Since the writer has studied only one modern foreign language, his column will need the assistance of the many ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Prepositions are handy things, cementing the relationship between parts of a sentence. In the sentence “He was caught between ...

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 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 ...

'good at' or 'good in'? Lim Chiu Lan from Malaysia doesn't know if we say someone is 'good at English' or 'good in English' ...