Go Ahead, End With a Preposition: Grammar Rules We All Can Live With. So Long, Sticklers. In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage.

Ending a sentence or clause with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of, writes grammar expert June Casagrande. A Word, Please: The grammar rule that isn’t a rule that won’t go away - Los ...

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 ...

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Merriam-Webster says yes The dictionary publisher's guidance on the practice has people riled up. Grammarians say the made-up rule is one big waste of time.

6 Grammar Rules You Can Break. ... “Don’t end a sentence with a preposition” is one of English grammar’s most infamous rules—but it turns out you don’t actually have to follow it.

I have a constant battle going on with the world of grammar and it's so-called rules. ... Rail Against the Rules of Grammar & The Position of Prepositions... Published: Aug. 15, 2009, 10:20 p.m. By .

Prepositions are permissible, ... And I was happy about that because, of all of the blackboard grammar rules, that one has always been one of the most utterly ridiculous.

The whole notion about “dangling” prepositions traces back to a tossed-off remark by poet John Dryden in 1672, although what seems to have truly set the “rule” in stone is A Short ...

When you first learn the rules for English grammar in elementary school, you find there are a lot of don’ts: Don’t end a sentence with a preposition; don’t begin a sentence with because.But ...