Science Says You Can Split Infinitives and Use the Passive Voice Steven Pinker explains why you don’t have to follow bogus grammar rules.

A Grammar Girl posting has a good explanation, though it comes down on the side of conjunction yes, preposition, notsomuch. Even so, “than” has been a preposition for more than 200 years, used by such ...

For years, people have shied away from leading with conjunctions. Some stuffy old 19th-century grammar book told students to never — under penalty of death — begin a sentence with a coordinating ...

English grammar plays a vital role in effective communication and language mastery. Whether you’re a native speaker or learning English as a second language, understanding and applying grammar ...

At its worst, learning about grammar is about acquiring abstract terminology and a set of nit-picking (and occasionally outdated or simply invented) rules about “correct” grammar.

Those “rules” also became popular in the 18th or 19th centuries; using a split infinitive, or beginning a sentence with a conjunction or ending it with a preposition elicits scorn from many sticklers.