A question from Lucy in Taiwan: Which of the following are correct? 1. What day is your birthday? 2. On what day is your birthday? 3. What day is the Christmas party? 4. On what day is the Christmas ...

Languages have evolved over time. The English language, perhaps because of its wide reach and usage, appears to have been the most affected. In a way, this has affected the way different age groups ...

Do you know when to use the prepositions 'in' 'on' 'by' and 'with'? Take our English quiz on prepositions... The good old Wren and Martin describes the preposition as "a word used with a noun or a ...

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 ...

Prepositions describe the relationship of words in a sentence. We use prepositions of location such as 'in', 'at' and 'on' to show the position of objects in the sentence. We use 'at' for specific ...

AN English teacher in Iran, Farhad H., recently sent me e-mail asking this very interesting question about preposition usage: “I often have difficulty when it comes to the difference between the ...

When I first started writing this column in the early aughts, readers would often complain to me about sentence-ending prepositions. Or, to put that ironically: Sentence-ending prepositions were ...

'Let's raise a toast to the new couple.' '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 ...