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5 EASY Grammar Rules For PREPOSITIONS (by, until, across, over, next to, into, while, during)

đź“Ś Master English Prepositions! Common Mistakes & Easy Fixes đź“Ś Struggling with prepositions? Confused about during vs. for, by vs. until, or across vs. through? In this lesson, expert English teacher ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: You can end a sentence with a preposition if you want to

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of “most common grammar mistakes” lists on the internet. And, over the years, I’ve learned they’re almost always wrong. That is, in every published list of the grammar ...
Brandeis University

Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.
NPR

Merriam-Webster says you can end a sentence with a preposition. The internet goes off

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 ...
The Economist

The award for nerdiest preposition goes to...

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 ...
NPR

Prepositions are permissible, now — will English language be ok?

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.