PREPOSICIONES COMO FINAL DE PREGUNTAS
Final prepositions in questions

LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

 

★ FINAL PREPOSITIONS IN QUESTIONS ★
(1) When a question word is the object of a preposition, the preposition usually comes at the end of the clause, especially in an informal style. That is why we often put a preposition (WITH, AT, FOR, etc.) at the end of a question with WHO...? or WHAT...?, especially in spoken English.
Examples:
a. Who did you go WITH? (more natural than "With whom did you go?")
b. Who is that letter FOR?
c. What are you looking AT?
d. What is she talking ABOUT?

(2) We also ask questions with Where ... FROM? and Where ... TO?
Examples:
a. Where do you come FROM? (or Where are you FROM?)
b. Where will I send this letter TO?
 
 

(3) In conversation, we often ask short questions with Who / What / Where + preposition.
Examples:
A: I'm going camping.
B: Who WITH?
A: Peter wants to talk to you.
B: To me? What ABOUT?

(4) Prepositions also come at the end of clauses in indirect WH-questions and WHAT-clauses which are not "real" questions.
Please tell them what you are looking FOR.

★ MORE GENERAL EXAMPLES ★
-- What are you looking FOR?
-- Who did Anne send the money TO?
-- Where is your wife FROM?
-- What's your book ABOUT?
-- Who are you in love WITH now?
-- What are you all waiting FOR?
-- Who did you give your cell number TO?
 

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