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.

The ‘Rule’ Against Ending Sentences With Prepositions Has Always Been Silly. March 7, 2024. Credit... Pablo Delcan. Share full article. ... Lindley Murray’s “English Grammar” in 1795.

Another common grammar mistake is ending a sentence with a preposition,” the author wrote. “A preposition, by its nature, indicates that another word will follow it.

In grammar, a word belongs to a class if it has the properties of that class. A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement.

Prepositions are permissible, now — will English language be ok? ... Move over, Oxford comma. There is some new grammar guidance about which everyone is talking - I mean, ...

“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.

Countless grammar books simply put a taboo on ending sentences with prepositions. The result: a nonsensical “rule” tartly and accurately described by Kingsley Amis as “one of those fancied ...

As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: "'Because' has become a preposition, because grammar." Indeed. So we get uses like this , from Wonkette : ...

The theater filled up with strangers and friends. Lloyd Rotker and his wife, Judith, had once seen Ms. Jovin speak at a library. “I’m very concerned about grammar,” Mr. Rotker said.