Topic summary
Stranded preposition
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Preposition stranding.
Preposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging, or danglingpreposition occurs somewhere other than immediately before its corresponding object; for example, at the end of a sentence. The term preposition stranding was coined in 1964, predated by stranded preposition in 1949. Linguists had previously identified such a construction as a sentence-terminal preposition or as a preposition at the end.