Putting prepositions at last

[GuilhermeRM]

Hello; I've got a question upon putting prepositions. As in sentences like ''We have much to be thankful
for'' and ''she came close by'', I ought to fill with prepositions?

[emsr2d2]

Hello; I've got a question upon about putting using prepositions. As In sentences like ''We have much to be thankful for'' and ''She came close by'', should I ought to fill ​them with prepositions?

Where would you like to put another preposition in those sentences?

[SoothingDave]

If you mean "can I end a sentence with a preposition?" then yes, you can. Many older grammarians advised against this, but it is really not a rule and leads to silly circumlocutions like "That is something up with which I can not put."

[emsr2d2]

I apologise for not having realised what you meant from your thread title. You will probably still hear that a preposition should not be the last word of a sentence, but that is nonsense.

This led to the amusing wording of this non-rule: "A preposition is a word you should not end a sentence with".

[WilliamRota]

May I cut those preposition off the sentence?

[emsr2d2]

May I cut those preposition off the sentence?

Can you remove them completely? Yes and no.

She came close. In fact, that is an improvement on "She came close by". "She was close by" is OK.

We have much to be thankful.

[SoothingDave]

May I cut those preposition off the sentence?

Not as a general rule. In some cases the prepositions are necessary; in others, superfluous.