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The sentence is:

This demo application contains features you may be interested.

When I write "be interested by", Grammarly says that I should use "in". Then, if I use "In", it says that the sentence shouldn't end by a preposition...

So, what is the correct way?

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  • 'This demo application contains features you may be interested.' 100% wrong. 'This demo application contains features you may be interested in.' 100% acceptable (I've ignored the fraction of a percent of hyperprescriptive opinions). Look up 'ending sentence with preposition' in the search function (or 'Addisonian').
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 16:23
  • There is no rule that forbids ending a sentence with a preposition. Sadly, though, there are many people that believe there is such a rule.
    – oerkelens
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 16:24

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I would rephrase as follows: 'This demo application contains features which might be of interest to you.'

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  • Do you mean that the OP's options "in" and "by" are both incorrect?
    – fev
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 16:29
  • Or "...which may interest you."
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 20:08
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Go ahead and use "in". If Shakespeare could end a sentence with a preposition, then so can we!

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  • Shakespeare used a great deal of SOV inversion. And nowadays weird senses of words. But you know this is essentially a multidupe.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 16:27
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INTERESTED is an adjective. We become" interested in something". Your sentence without the preposition IN becomes two separate clauses. We write the sentence the other way round to make it obvious.

  • This demo application contains features (in which) you may be interested.

When we elide WHICH it becomes necessary to place IN at the rear with INTERSET it is related to. Here my foregoing sentence has been construed in the same way. Grammarly is correct in using IN.

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