Who did you speak to?
Who did you go with?
Who is that present from?
Who was the story about?
Where are you from?
Preposition stranding is not possible in some languages, for example Italian
and French. In English, preposition stranding is disapproved of in some
versions of prescriptive grammar, but is more common in speech than
pied piping, the process through which the wh-word and the preposition
move together, as in the following:
To who(m) did you speak?
With who(m) did you go?
Sentences exhibiting pied piping are felt by many speakers of English
nowadays to be quite unnatural and in some cases unacceptable (for
example, *From where are you?).pre-reading v
activities that students carry out before reading a text, in order to prepare
them for reading. Pre-reading activities may pre-teach vocabulary, activate
background knowledge, activate reading strategies, predict content, generate
interest in a topic or check ideas and understanding of a topic.
prescriptive grammarn
a grammar which states rules for what is considered the best or most correct
usage. Prescriptive grammars are often based not on descriptions of actual
usage but rather on the grammarian’s views of what is best. Many tradi-
tional grammars are of this kind.
see also descriptive grammar, normative grammar
presentation stagen
see PPP
present continuousn
see progressive
present participlen
see participle
present perfectn
see perfect
present perfect continuousn
see progressive
present perfect continuous