For years, grammar nerds have been wagging their finger at students and writers who dare break one of their most sacred rules: ending a sentence with a preposition. But last week, Merriam-Webster, one ...

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 ...

PREPOSITIONS form a pretty exclusive club. Unlike nouns and verbs, of which there are squillions each, Wikipedia lists over a hundred modern one-word prepositions, a few two-word ("next to") and three ...