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be placed at the end of clause or sentence but should always
precede the noun or pronoun which it governs.
Who are you talking to?
should therefore be:
To whom are you talking?
‘To’ is the preposition and ‘whom’ is a relative pronoun.
However, as the second example sounds very pompous, this
‘rule’ is often ignored.
Some other prepositions are: from, above, with, by, of, on,
after, for, in, between.
REVISING THE POINTS
◆ Conjunctions or connectives are words that link clauses
together.
◆ If a sentence begins with a conjunction, there must be
two clauses following it and they must be separated by a
comma.
◆ Sentences should not start with ‘and’ or ‘but’.
◆ Relative pronouns are used to introduce a dependent
clause in the middle of a main clause.
◆ A phrase is a group of words that does not make sense on
its own.
◆ Phrases add extra information to the sentence.
