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  2. Is a preposition something you can end a sentence with? - AOL

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    Don't end one with a preposition. The list goes on. But as you can see by how I started this sentence, it turns out the English language is a bit more flexible than some of our teachers told us ...

  3. Preposition stranding - Wikipedia

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    Preposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging, or dangling preposition occurs somewhere other than immediately before its corresponding object; for example, at the end of a sentence. The term preposition stranding was coined in 1964, predated by stranded preposition in 1949.

  4. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    English prepositions are words – such as of, in, on, at, from, etc. – that function as the head of a prepositional phrase, and most characteristically license a noun phrase object (e.g., in the water). [1] Semantically, they most typically denote relations in space and time. [2] Morphologically, they are usually simple and do not inflect. [1]

  5. Fumblerules - Wikipedia

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    "Don't listen to any advice." "Ending a sentence with a preposition is one thing that I will not put up with." "English is the crème de la crème of all languages." "Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation." "It is bad to carelessly split infinitives." "Never use no double negatives." "No sentence fragments." "Parentheses are (almost always ...

  6. Merriam-Webster finally agrees prepositions are ... - AOL

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  7. Adposition - Wikipedia

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    the preposition on has what as its complement, but what is moved to the start of the sentence, because it is an interrogative word. This sentence is much more common and natural than the equivalent sentence without stranding: "On what did you sit?" Preposition stranding is commonly found in English, [10] as well as North Germanic languages such ...