Prepositions: ending and beginning a sentence with it
Which one of the following is better, please?
1.1. About what was your class?
1.2. What was your class about?
Is it OK to end, as well as begin, a wh-interrogative sentence with a preposition when it has a Prepositional verb?
Here are some examples:
2.1. Whom were you talking to?
2.2. To whom were you talking?
3.1. Who was she referring to when she said "idiot"?
3.2. To who was she referring when she said "idiot"?
Thank you!
Top answer
Always put the preposition at the end ! — unless you are doing formal academic writing — but then you don't usually write questions in an academic essay, so the problem doesn't come up much in that case. CJ
- Always put the preposition at the end !
- — unless you are doing formal academic writing — but then you don't usually write questions in an academic essay, so the problem doesn't come up much in that case.
- CJ
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Always put the preposition at the end!
— unless you are doing formal academic writing — but then you don't usually write questions in an academic essay, so the problem doesn't come up much in that case.
CJ
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