Tricky as it sounds, most prepositions sound correct/incorrect depending on how and where it is used in a given sentence. For example: Amit was born on February 23, 1980 in Mumbai at 8 am.

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.

He has taught EFL, EAP and Business English in China, Spain and England, and he is the co-author of the Language Leader Elementary and Pre-Intermediate English language course books (Pearson Longman).

Anglican bishop Robert Lowth popularized the prohibition against ending a sentence with a preposition in his 1762 book, A Short Introduction to English Grammar; while Henry Alford, a dean of ...

David Weber, English Prepositions in the History of English Grammar Writing, AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2012), pp. 227-243 ...

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet Linguists are recognizing the delightful evolution of the word "because." By Megan Garber November 19, 2013 ...

The sheer awkwardness of the idea that English should not end sentences with prepositions is captured in the fact Lowth himself wrote, when arguing against it, “This is an idiom which our ...

Gareth Rees answers the question from Lucy in Taiwan about the use of prepositions in questions. Ask about English 03 March 2009 ...