The goal of the Object Disambiguation using Locative Prepositions project is to improve human-robot interaction by developing models for how humans use prepositional phrases to identify objects in a ...

In the biggest grammar news since the advent of the Oxford comma, the dictionary dignitaries at Merriam-Webster have declared it acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. This, of course, has ...

Connect to or connect with? On television or in television? Admit someone to hospital or in hospital? What is the difference between ‘old for his years’ and ‘old in years’? Which is correct: try ...

Australia is an island country, which means that it is surrounded by water. The coastline of Australia is over 30,000 kilometres long. In this lesson, you will test your understanding of prepositions ...

On Monday, Oct 31, Professor Nathan Schneider, from Georgetown University, presented this semester's first Ling Circle Talk, "The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges in Comprehensive ...

If we compare nouns, pronouns and verbs with bricks that make the substance of a building, we may compare prepositions to the mortar. It binds separate elements into a single structure. Ergo, ...

Inter alia, last week's column discussed the preposition 'with'. That was prompted by a quoted passage that failed to adequately convey what the writer intended. In addition, we often come across ...

De is also used in phrases with verbs like finir de, refuser de, décider de... It is usually followed by an infinitive. For example: ...

To connect to or connect with? On television or in television? To admit someone to hospital or to admit someone in hospital? What is the difference between ‘old for his years’ and ‘old in years’?