Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place.

“The preposition in the end of the sentence; a common fault with him,” Dryden said about Johnson, according to Merriam-Webster.

Another common grammar mistake is ending a sentence with a preposition,” the author wrote. “A preposition, by its nature, indicates that another word will follow it.

Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place.

The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.