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 ...

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.

Australia is an island country, which means that it is surrounded by water. The coastline of Australia is over 30,000 kilometres long. In this lesson, you will test your understanding of prepositions ...

Prepositions are short words and phrases that give information about place, time and manner, eg: 'on', 'under', 'near', 'below', 'by', 'at', 'in' You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together ...