50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

YOU CAN’T END SENTENCES WITH PREPOSITIONS

The question “Where are you at?” would make any English teacher cringe — and for good reason. It’s grammatically incorrect to end sentences with prepositions when the sentence would have the same meaning without it. But otherwise, it’s perfectly fine. Not only is there no rule anywhere that says you can’t, but sometimes not ending sentences with prepositions makes writing clumsy and unnatural (“On what did you step?” vs. “What did you step on?”).

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