I've bought these tee-shorts for you.' The words italicised in the above sentences are prepositions, defined as "a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a ...

Each item below offers a choice, in a pull-down menu, of four prepositions for expressing various logical relationships. For each numbered item, select the preposition that best fits in the sentence.

Sponsor Message 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 each item below, the sentence contains a highlighted conjunction expressing a time relationship, followed by a preposition in parentheses. In the blank box under each item, rewrite the sentence ...

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'.

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 ...