A preposition shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence. This relationship usually has something to do with time, space, or location.

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

Merriam-Webster had touched on a stubborn taboo — the practice of ending sentences with prepositions such as to, with, about, upon, for or of — that was drilled into many of us in grade school ...

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

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 ...

A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a preposition is a case in point. Hardly anything discovered by linguists about language makes it through to presentations of grammar to the general ...

Prepositions are handy things, cementing the relationship between parts of a sentence. In the sentence “He was caught between a rock and a hard place,” for example, the preposition “between” connects ...

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- ...

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 ...