You just hopped in the cab. The driver might say, “Where to?” This standalone phrase is common in spoken, casual English. But what if your boss tells you she has a business trip next week? You could ...

A preposition is a word used to connect nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence. They also tend to connect the people, objects, time and locations of a sentence. Prepositions are ...

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 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 ...

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...