I've wrapped the present up. I've wrapped up the present. That is the man I was talking to. That is the man to whom I was talking. But if it sounds too formal to rearrange the sentence as may be the case with the last example , rest assured that it's not wrong to leave the preposition dangling.
Do note that some dangling prepositions are incorrect, though, because they don't belong in the sentence at all:. Where are you going to? This should be "Where are you going? What time is the play at? This should be "What time is the play? Latin has influenced superstitions about English grammar in more than one way. There's another well-known "rule" that makes sense for Latin but not for English. Can you think of what it is? Viewed 6k times. Improve this question.
If someone has a gun to your head and says "It's your prepositions or your life", you could phrase it as " DanBron: your likely to still get a bullet for using a passive construction anyway, so why bother?
What about using "your" instead of "you're", for example "your likely to still get a bullet for using It is fine as it stands, but if you must change it, then "and we would have to account for all of them", where the agent "we" could be changed to suit the circumstances.
Show 5 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. I will give you a place to read the opposite: There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with for. This should solve your problem. On a general note: beware of any and all restrictive grammar and style advises that have accumulated over the years and that tend to be: incomplete based on false assumptions unworkable out of touch with linguistic reality simply wrong Most generalized "rules" tend to fall into one or more of these categories.
Improve this answer. This answer suggest an alternative for the ridiculous misconception that "one should not end a sentence with a preposition". Can you explain how that does not answer the question, talmu? If someone comes to a doctor and asks for a way to amputate his leg, you criticize the doctor if he saves the leg because amputation is not necessary? If I ask you why horses have seven legs, isn't the correct answer that they have four?
Or should I insist on an explanation why they have seven? Actually, if the preposition is such a problem, so should the passive construction be. The asker seems to think it is more helpful to be told "That rule is junk" than to be told how to rephrase the sentence with "for" in the middle instead of at the end.
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Practical rather than academic, this best seller is packed with real-life examples and great quotations from Homer the Greek to Homer the Simpson. Prepositions are typically followed by an object, which can be a noun noon , a noun phrase the door , or a pronoun you. Some of the most common prepositions are: at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to, with, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, during, except, inside, instead of, into, like, near, off, on top of, onto, out of, outside, over, past, since, though, toward, over, under, until and without.
Not true. English speakers have been doing so since the days of Old English. American Heritage Dictionary also traces the superstition to misapplied rules of Latin and sets the record straight. Support our coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.
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