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

📌 Master English Prepositions! Common Mistakes & Easy Fixes 📌 Struggling with prepositions? Confused about during vs. for, by vs. until, or across vs. through? In this lesson, expert English teacher ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Learn English: Using prepositions to explore Australia's coastline

Australia is an island country, which means that it is surrounded by water. The coastline of Australia is over 30,000 kilometres long. In this lesson, you will test your understanding of prepositions ...
The New York Times

The ‘Rule’ Against Ending Sentences With Prepositions Has Always Been Silly

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 comical ...
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.
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 ...
Purdue University

Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Parts of the human brain think about the same word differently, at least when it comes to prepositions, according to new language research in stroke patients conducted by ...