Merriam-Webster's website is shown. There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: "Funner" isn't a word. Neither is "stupider." Don't start a sentence with a conjunction. Don't ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Proper” English is full of stumbling blocks, and chief among them is the sentence that ends in a preposition. For example, this question: Are sentences that end in prepositions really something to be ...

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.

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 ...

I just realized that yesterday I promised to talk about how prepositions get thrown into the mix. It's pretty easy really. Let's start out today's discussion with the difference between who and whom.

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Yes. Can you say so online and not send angry social media users into attack mode? Apparently not. That’s the lesson of a recent Instagram post by ...

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 ...

The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from Merriam-Webster: "It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with," the dictionary publisher said in a post ...