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Prepositions at the end of clauses
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Prepositions often come at the ends of clauses in English. This happens in several kinds of structure:

a) questions beginning what, who, where etc.

  • What are you looking at?
  • Who did you go with?
  • Where did you buy it from?


b)    relative clauses

  • There's the house (that) I told you about.
  • You remember the boy I was going out with?


с)    passive structures

  • I hate being laughed at.
  • They took him to hospital yesterday and he's already been operated on.

d)     infinitive structures

  • It's a boring place to live in.
  • I need something to write with

In a more formal style, we can put a preposition before a question-word or a relative pronoun.

  • To whom is that letter addressed?
  • She met a man with whom she had been friendly years before.
  • On which flight is the general travelling?

 


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