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There’s no rule against ending sentences with prepositions and doing so — for example by contorting your sentence to avoid a simple wording like “put up with” — can be a terrible idea.

Typically, prepositions are the words that express the time, space and directional relationship between two other words in a sentence: above, at, below, during, from, in, on, to, upon, with and so on.

The Herald-Mail Opinion Merriam-Webster finally agrees prepositions are something you can end a sentence with Tim Rowland Thu, March 14, 2024, 2:13 AM PDT 3 min read ...

Instead, the usage authorities wrote, simply, “Ending a sentence with a preposition (such as with, of, and to) is permissible in the English language.” ...

Telling students not to end sentences with prepositions was a fad among teachers in decades past, especially in the 1950s and ’60s. The echoes of those lessons grow fainter every year.

Sure, it’s important to maintain formal sentence structure when the occasion calls for it: in a job cover letter, in academic papers and when ordering at multi-Michelin star restaurants. But, in ...

In the biggest grammar news since the advent of the Oxford comma, the dictionary dignitaries at Merriam-Webster have declared it acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. This, of course, has ...