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On the Internet, that storehouse of dubious advice, you can still find statements about grammar and usage like this one: “One is still officially supposed to avoid ending sentences with prepositions.
A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like 'after', 'before', 'on', 'under', 'inside' and 'outside'.