'She arrived after dinner.' 'Let's raise a toast to the new couple.' 'I've bought these tee-shorts for you.' The words italicised in the above sentences are prepositions, defined as "a word governing, ...

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 ...

Today I am bringing you another of my occasional lessons in our ongoing educational series, "English as a Third, Fourth or Fifth Language". This time round, we are going to look at the way the English ...

A FOLLOWER of mine on Facebook, Marianne Freya Gutib, recently asked me these very interesting grammar questions: 1. When do we use “confident in” and “confident of”? What is denoted by these words?