Hey, welcome to another writing tip of the day with Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Anderson. Today we are going to tackle prepositions and why it is not okay to end a sentence with a preposition. We're going to talk about what a preposition is. We're going to talk about the reasons they shouldn't be at the ends of sentences. We're going to practice some revising and then we'll look at ways to apply this lesson to your own writing. Well, the simple fact of the matter is that the job of a preposition is to show the relationship between two nouns. Prepositions should come before the nouns, which are called object of the preposition. So if we look at this example here, Ali's book was under her desk. The preposition here is under because the book is under the desk. The object of the preposition is desk. It shows us where the book is. As a result, we can see that the preposition shows the relationship between the two nouns. All right. So why isn't it okay to end a sentence with a preposition? Well, because you want to be as clear as possible. If you look at the incorrect option here, 1865 is the year that the Civil War ended in. It isn't really a good sentence. It's kind of not a complete thought. If you move it around to create it in a more coherent thought, you can see here the Civil War ended in 1865, or you could do it another way. In 1865, the Civil War ended. It's a much better, stronger sentence. All right. Now here are some examples for you to practice. And so you want to pause the video. You can write these on your own notebook paper, and then I'll give you some answers in just a minute. I'm going to pause. Hey, welcome back. All right. Let's see how you did. For number one, since it's a question, it's okay to keep it the way that it is, but a better revision here would be with whom did you go to the dance. And if you struggle with who and whom, there's another lesson in our set that you could look at. For the second one, a better modification would be we are waiting for the president. Number three was correct. Number four, we couldn't hear her. Would be one way to do it, or she was talking about something, but we couldn't hear. Last but not least, this president is for Nick. It would be the thing you want to do there. All right. So how do you apply this lesson to your own writing? Well, you need to go back into your writing and look. And look at each sentence, see if it ends in a preposition. If it does, well, then you need to make sure that it's used properly. So go back in, revise it. We've got a nice chart here that lists prepositions that are frequently misused that wind up at the ends of sentences. We've got about against, after, at, by, four from in, in two of, on, over, through, two, under, with, anytime you end a sentence with one of these, you might want to look at it and make sure that you weren't ending in a preposition. Hey, have a good day. Happy writing. Thanks for joining us.