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Hit or myth: you can't end a sentence on a preposition

Prepositions are words that show how the other parts of a sentence relate to each other in space or time, for example about, after, at, before, between, in, into, on, over, to, with etc. A commonly held belief is that it is incorrect to end a sentence with one. For example, instead of writing, ‘Whom did you send the memo to?’, the correct grammar would be ‘To whom did you send the memo?’.

Winston Churchill is famously rumoured to have complained 'this is a rule up with which I will not put'. But was he right to object? Read our blog post Hit or myth? Prepositions ending sentences to find out.

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