It’s not wrong to use “a while” as an adverb, too: Stay a while. But after “for” or any other preposition, you need the two-word version: Stay for a while.

As for “a while,” it’s a noun phrase. As we saw with the word “Tuesday” in our above example, nouns can work as adverbials. That’s why “Stay a while” and “Stay awhile” are both ...

Believe- it is a word that is used in so many contexts, for so many reasons. It is a word scrawled on my left wrist in the form of a tattoo, a constant reminder to never lose faith, no matter what the ...

As reported by CNN, Merriam-Webster has added about 1,700 new words, with 3,200 existing words receiving “new examples to add context”—a phrase that we sincerely hope is on the cover somewhere.