In the first five examples, I think it comes from people’s following the prepositional example of a similar expression that seems stronger: respectively, other (or bigger, stronger, etc.) than ...

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 ...

Hardly anything discovered by linguists about language makes it through to presentations of grammar to the general public, Geoff Pullum says. A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a ...

The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

Prepositional because can be yoked to verbs (Can’t talk now because cooking), adjectives (making up examples because lazy), interjections (Because yay!), and maybe adverbs too, though in strings ...

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like 'after', 'before', 'on', 'under', 'inside' and 'outside ...

In a post on Instagram last week, Merriam-Webster has found itself dividing commenters by asserting that it is permissible for a sentence to end in a preposition. Peter Sokolowski from Merriam ...

John Raymond Hendrickson, Old English Prepositional Compounds in Relationship to Their Latin Originals, Language, Vol. 24, No. 4, Language Dissertation No. 43: Old English Prepositional Compounds in ...