ABSTRACT

Question: Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Answer: Strict grammarians still frown upon such a structure. Sometimes,

however, it is more cumbersome to try to avoid it.

A phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb pair. Thus, a phrase doesn’t have the status of a complete sentence. We’ve read so far about prepositional phrases. Here we’ll talk some more about prepositions, the prepositional phrase, and a two-part verb that often looks like a verb + preposition, but isn’t, called a phrasal verb.