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.

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

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A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement. And so in "Notwithstanding the rain, it was an excellent night out", "notwithstanding" can only be a ...

Horrifyingly, there are thousands of writers out there who are similarly gripped by the idea that separating a preposition from its complement is a grammatical sin.

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Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 129: Subscribe in Apple Podcasts ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab This week, John McWhorter focuses in ...

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