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Ending Sentences in Prepositions 684 Views
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We all know it's not okay to end sentences in prepositions, right? Think again! It's totally fine…as long as the preposition meets a few conditions. Check out this video to learn more about this mysterious phenomenon. Go here to get the deets on prepositions: /grammar/prepositions/ending-a-sentence-in-a-preposition.html
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Pending sentences in propositions All right
- 00:09
Penelope has never had this kind of problems for you
- 00:13
She contracted mano better known as the kissing disease from
- 00:16
the boys She's been after now she's stuck at home
- 00:20
watching soap operas and wondering whom johnny could have caught
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- 00:23
mono from penelope is busy puzzling over the identity of
- 00:27
the other woman in johnny's life But should she be
- 00:30
worrying more about her proposition Aly uses well here's the
- 00:34
grammar rule on ending senses in preparations It's Totally cool
- 00:37
to do so as long as that proposition is necessary
- 00:41
and indispensable art What does necessary and indispensable look like
- 00:48
lana's family is unpacking from a recent move from our
- 00:51
masks Which box is the tv remote in that you
- 00:56
is necessary and indispensable without it The question doesn't make
- 00:59
much sense Jimmy plans to ride in the mongol rally
- 01:03
with his three best friend The guys are site Their
- 01:06
parents have only one question Which third world countries do
- 01:09
you plan on driving through Well that through is once
- 01:13
again necessary and indispensable And having seal team six on
- 01:17
speed dial for this trip will probably be necessary and
- 01:19
indispensable to billy and tracy have been together since the
- 01:23
seventh grade but now they're going to different colleges on
- 01:27
opposite sides of the country tracy tells billy cheat on
- 01:30
me this semester and i swear i'll fly to pittsburgh
- 01:32
just to cut something off if you get what we
- 01:35
mean that off is necessary and indispensable as are some
- 01:40
other things and something tells us that billy's eyes aren't
- 01:43
going to wander at all Okay now that we've looked
- 01:47
at senses that correctly end in propositions let's look at
- 01:50
some examples of end of sentence proposition use gone horribly
- 01:53
terribly wrong katie's throwing herself a birthday party and she's
- 01:57
invited all her friends seven o'clock on saturday night rolls
- 02:01
around and she's all alone in her living room where's
- 02:04
everyone at she asked we'll hear the ad is unnecessary
- 02:09
dispensable and grammatically incorrect and just plain annoying Tom sees
- 02:13
a carload of hot girls at a red light He
- 02:16
pulls up rolls down his window and ask the driver
- 02:19
where you drive into well they probably mean to get
- 02:21
as far away from that bad grammar is possible tom
- 02:24
because that too is both unnecessary and dispensable The grammar
- 02:29
rule here is simple It's Okay to end a sentence
- 02:31
with a proposition so long as that proposition is necessary
- 02:34
and indispensable And now that penelope has got propositions under
- 02:38
control it's time to have a friendly little chat with 00:02:41.893 --> [endTime] her boy johnny Oh come on
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