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1. Position of Prepositions

♦ Prepositions can be used at the end of a sentence if the sentence is a question
that begins with a wh- word. For example,

• How many months have you been practising for?
• Who/whom are you going to write to?
• What film are you interested in?
• Which book are you pointing to?

♦ In relative clauses also, prepositions can be shifted to the end of the clause.
For example,

• He is the person who/whom I can turn to in need.
• This is the man who/whom I told you about yesterday.
• The book which I have taken this poem from is Madhushala.

(In these examples, that can replace ‘who/whom/which.)
• He is the person (that) I can turn to in need. (that can be dropped also)

♦ Such shifting of a preposition is not possible in phrasal verbs. For example,
• The matter which/that I am looking into is serious.

You cannot write this sentence as follows—
• The matter into which I am looking is serious.

♦ The preposition can also be placed before the conjunction whom or which.

We can write:
• He is the person to whom I can turn in need.

• This is the man about whom I told you yesterday.
• The book from which I have taken this poem is Madhushala.

2. Use of prepositions after a verb with two objects

For example,
• He gave me a book. = He gave a book to me.

indirect object direct object
• They brought her a dress. = They brought a dress for her.
indirect object direct object
• I showed him the letter. = I showed the letter to him.

indirect object direct object
• He sent his son money. = He sent money to his son.
indirect object direct object

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