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108 questions linked to/from When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
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is stranding prepositions incorrect? [duplicate]
I recently came across this issue. I searched online and found that a stranded preposition might be no longer treated as incorrect, but it's just a guess. Are you still taught not to end a sentence ...
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Ending sentences with prepositons [duplicate]
I'm currently writing up some professional documentation and I know ending sentences with a preposition is frowned upon. Are there any English rules for converting these types of sentences that are ...
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What’s wrong with “After roasting the deer, the hunter extinguished the fire and then searched for a tree to hang it from”?
A question from my GMAT class, which I was told is wrong and it was left for me to figure it out.
After roasting the deer, the hunter extinguished the fire and then searched for a tree to hang it ...
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Is it possible to start a grammatically-correct English sentence with the word "Than"?
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Is it possible to start a grammatically-correct English sentence with the word "Than"?
If no, what other English words share this property?
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Trevor claimed that it is ...
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"Smooths" versus "Smoothes"
I am interested in the rapid rise (since about 1993) in frequency of the spelling smoothes as against smooths.
An Ngram Viewer graph tracking the frequency of usage of the two words from 1800 to 2005 ...
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What is the origin of 'Gosh'?
'Gosh' is a common substitute for the word 'God' in phrases such as 'Oh My Gosh' or 'By Gosh' or just 'Gosh'. Is this just a corruption of the word 'God' or does it have some other provenance? How ...
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"Based on" vs. "based upon"
Should I use on or upon in the following sentence?
I remembered the story years later when I investigated the incident it was based on.
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Can you grammatically end a sentence with "with"? For example, in "Do you want to come with?"
Do you want to come with?
Can I come with?
I seem to hear this construction more often in recent years, but it still grates on my ear.
I know it's often said that one shouldn't end a sentence with a ...
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Is the plural form of “Mercedes” a disused word?
In the picture below:
1) are there two Mercedeses?
Or,
2) are there two Mercedes?
Can we infer from this nGram that the plural noun "Mercedeses" is a disused word, hence the sentence 2) is ...
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Prepositions at the end of sentence and whom
I believe it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition. That seems to be the consensus here as well.
Now I think that when who is the object of a preposition, it should technically be whom, e.g. "...
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"[...] up with which I will not put."
Okay, I'm probably being a bit slow here, but I don't quite understand this story:
Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and ...
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Who do I need to send product information to? [closed]
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Who do I need to send product information to?
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Can two prepositions be used one after the other? [closed]
I am in doubt about my sentence. I am trying to describe around 73% accuracy that can be obtained using a mentioned method. So, I have written:
The study of Sen et al (2012) has shown that a tree ...
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Ending sentence with "supposed to"
Is the following sentence acceptable?
He arrived ten minutes earlier than he was supposed to.
It doesn't sound right, but I can't think of any better way to end the sentence.
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"We are finished" vs. "We have finished"
Is "we are finished" grammatically correct? I thought it would be more correct to say "We have finished".
