Expressing Logical Relationships / Guided Practice - Conjunctions to Prepositions Guided Practice In each item below, the sentence contains a highlighted conjunction expressing a time relationship, ...

Geoff Pullum’s heart sinks as he sees a government-ordained test of grammar that requires children to give an incorrect 18th-century answer rather than a correct 21st-century one.

But in a number of dictionaries, the word “than” is categorised as both a preposition and a conjunction. Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary states that the word is both a preposition and a ...

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.

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 ...

These conjunctions are used at the beginning of a clause. They introduce a contrast between two ideas, sentences or clauses. They have similar meanings and are used in the same way.