Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns to show a relation to them. English learners find ...

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 ...

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.

In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage. It would surprise many writers and editors to learn that Strunk and White, authors of the most ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The purpose of last week’s posting was to warn against accepting supposedly famous quotations just because ...

Sometimes people correct things that are not mistakes. Here are some of them! Ad: The first 100 people to go to are going to ...

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 ...

I have a constant battle going on with the world of grammar and it's so-called rules. Partly because it depends on the grammar authority you're utilizing (and the time period from which it came) and ...

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 ...