There seems to be some confusion regarding whether it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition.

Rather than getting into that one too deep, let’s talk a bit about an easy solution to a common, and irritating, preposition problem.

Specifically, how about we all agree that we shouldn’t end a question or sentence with, or even use at all, a preposition we don’t need?

Here’s what I’m talking about:

“Where did you buy that radio at?”

“What day were you born on?”

“Where does she get all her money from?”

“The team is without both their scorers.  Where will it get its points from?”

(This mistake is just as bad if we goof with the order while trying to sound erudite:

“On what day were you born?”

“From where does she get all her money?”)

This stuff happens with non-questions too:

“I found out where we take the test at.”

“I know where she got the chair from.”

Let’s just drop the extra prepositions.  OK?