Saturday, December 17, 2011

Problems with Prepositions

Sometimes, we use unnecessary prepositions in a sentence. There is also a rule on the site says that you may end a sentence with a preposition but don't use extra prepositions when the meaning unclear without them.

Example: She wouldn't let the cat inside of the house.
Omit the preposition "of".
The correct sentence should be "She wouldn't let the cat inside the house."

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/probPrep.asp

6 comments:

  1. "There is also a rule on the site says that you may end a sentence with a preposition but don't use extra prepositions when the meaning unclear without them."

    Please consider revising this sentence.

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  2. I think Christina forgot to omit "of" in her last sentence example.

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  3. You are right Limor; so Darwin is confused with the example.

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  4. Oh, I'm sorry. Limor is right, I forgot to omit "of".

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  5. I have edited my post. Thank you for the correction.

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