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 ...

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.

Some writers follow the old rule that says you should never end a sentence with a preposition. Others pile the prepositions on. For instance, here’s a sentence that Roger Angell credits to E. B. White ...