The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe. Placing a preposition at the end of a sentence might be a breach of linguistic etiquette ...

The sheer awkwardness of the idea that English should not end sentences with prepositions is captured in the fact Lowth himself wrote, when arguing against it, “This is an idiom which our ...

And so is that so-called grammar rule about ending sentences with prepositions. If that previous sentence bugs you, by the way, you’ve bought into another myth.

T he sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving this fake grammar rule a particular distinction: Its ...

In grammar, a word belongs to a class if it has the properties of that class. A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement.

The paper intends to trace the four hundred years of the history of English grammar writing with special reference to English prepositions. It provides the reader with some of the most influential ...

Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place.

As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: "'Because' has become a preposition, because grammar." Indeed. So we get uses like this, from Wonkette: ...