A prepositional phrase is made up of a preposition and its object: with cheese, on it, at the restaurant, of La Mancha. In each, ...

According to one of many versions of the story, an editor revised a sentence of Churchill's so the final word wasn't a ...

It’s a regular word, so it works like one. Just as you don’t write “Put the book On the table,” you don’t write “See me tomorrow Re scheduling.” In fact, you’d be using the wrong word.

In grammar, a word belongs to a class if it has the properties of that class. A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement.

Phrases are in bold; objects of preposition are italicized. In 2016 (answering the question “when”) and for the first time (answering the question “under what condition”). Both are adverbial ...

It’s easy to change “from off of the chair,” too, first by losing “of” (“from off the chair”) and then by eliminating the double preposition (“from the chair” or “off the chair.”) In fact, most double ...

Prepositions. 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.

It's a usage, in other words, that is exceptionally bloggy and aggressively casual and implicitly ironic. And also highly adaptable. Carey has unearthed instances of the "because-noun ...