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Jimmyyl Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

preposition at the end

Hi,

"Which university do you graduate from?"

For this sentence, if I dont want a preposition at the end, how can I modify it?

Thanks
  

Top answer

From which university are you? From which univ. do you come -- unusual to my non-native tin ears.

  • From which university are you?
  • From which univ.
  • do you come -- unusual to my non-native tin ears.
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From which university are you?
From which univ. do you come -- unusual to my non-native tin ears.
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Hi

So for native speaker, which way of saying this is the most proper?

Thanks
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Hi guys,

"Which university did you graduate from?"

Some more common ways to ask this include

Where did you go to university?

What university did you go to?

What was your university?

In suitable context
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JimmyylHi,

"Which university do you graduate from?"

For this sentence, if I dont want a preposition at the end, how can I modify it?

Thanks

Did you edit your original question?
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From which university you did graduation?
From which university you have done graduation?
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From which university you did graduation?
From which university you have done graduation?


Anon, there are two problems here:

1) Word order - although you can use your tone of voice to make a question out of this, usually in a question, you invert the verb-subject. Did you graduate?

2) We don't (at least in AmE, and perhaps i
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Jimmyyll's original question begs the question, "Is the rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition D-E-A-D?"
  • Where did you come from? This flows off the tongue so easily!

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