A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

NARRATOR: Oh, you’re Golem, you’re going to help us with prepositions? Okay. A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Words like ‘afte ...

I think we can all agree on the reasons the accident occurred. In number 1 above, and as if to make things confusing beyond reason, the correct idiomatic English is neither of these prepositions!

“From”, “at”, “since” or “around” – prepositions like these help us to locate things. They point us in the right direction – in time or place, for example. But it is not always as simple as it seems.

According to one of many versions of the story, an editor revised a sentence of Churchill’s so the final word wasn’t a preposition. You know like, “of” or “in” or “at.” Here’s ...