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Positioning The Preposition In English

They may be some of the tiniest words in the language, but English prepositions like "in" and "on" can have a huge impact on the meaning of a sentence. Make sure you're using them correctly with the tips in this article.

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It is simply not the case that a preposition always comes before a noun or pronoun. It often does, but sometimes it doesn’t. It is easy to find examples (particularly from everyday speech) that illustrate the point: I don’t know which train I’m on, Paddington is the next station we’ll arrive at, and so on. You could of course say I don’t know on which train I am – but it would be hard to find any native speaker of English who would say that; you could say Paddington is the next station at which we will arrive – but very few people these days would use such a formal construction in ordinary speech.

There is, in fact, an old argument surrounding the point: whether it is (so-called) ‘better English’ to keep the preposition next to the noun or pronoun, or whether attempts to do so sometimes lead to ludicrous results that prove the ‘rule’ to be a silly myth. The most famous example is probably: This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. Obviously, anyone who isn’t a prize idiot would say This is the sort of thing I won’t put up with – using the preposition at the end of the sentence.

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The title is a bit misleading, isn't it? The article hardly talks about *positioning* the preposition (as you say, it's simply always before the noun or pronoun in all examples), but mostly about picking the right one to express a certain meaning.
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Although I thing that it is not so simple, the article is very useful. Thanks!
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Great article and super helpful! It is well written and contains easy examples. I'm looking forward to reading more valuable tips about grammar. Thanks a lot!
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Thanks a lot! I found really helpful your article.

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