Now that my kids are out of the house and I’m in the process of retiring from teaching, I have to be more creative in my efforts to find out how young people are using the language. One place I like ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like 'after', 'before', 'on', 'under', 'inside' and 'outside'.

Prepositions are those pesky little words such as "to," "on," "from," "for," "of," "with," etc. that connect parts of sentences. They are the main ingredients of many popular English collocations, ...

It is a peculiar hubris of California's legislators that they often presume to extend the application of the state's laws beyond its legal borders. Corporations Code Section 2115, for example, ...

A suspiciously long prepositional phrase wasn`t the only irregularity that tipped a journalism grad student onto a mystery at Northwestern University. Mounted on a large rock on the Evanston campus, a ...

Those lists will probably be very familiar to people who have been learning Irish recently. They are a pain to learn but they are very useful on a number of levels. I don’t believe that one language ...