When I started writing this column in the early aughts, people would say it’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. They said it to me — every time I did it. This idea was one of many myths that ...

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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 ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The purpose of last week’s posting was to warn against accepting supposedly famous quotations just because ...

In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage. It would surprise many writers and editors to learn that Strunk and White, authors of the most ...

An email writer recently took me to task for my “atrocious” grammar. Later, I learned that my specific transgression is the occasional use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. We are not born ...

One aspect of the English language that is hard for non-native speakers of English is prepositions. They tend to use prepositions either incorrectly or redundantly. Recently, a friend requested me to ...