English Grammar - Dangling Prepositions

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One thing about English that might seem strange to you is when you hear sentences like, "That's an idea I've never heard of." You might wonder how and why English speakers can end a sentence with a preposition like of. I'm guessing that in your native language, it's not very common to have prepositions at the end of sentences like this. In English, we call these dangling prepositions. In the next few minutes, I wanna show you some examples of how these dangling prepositions work. Also, remember that if you want my help to improve your listening and pronunciation in English, click on the link in the description below this episode to sign up for my training. So in the past, it was considered bad grammar to put a preposition on the end of a sentence in English. But now everybody does this, and it's something that you probably have to do if you wanna sound natural when speaking English. Let's take another look at the sentence I said earlier. "That's an idea I've never heard of." Many years ago, this sentence would have sounded like poor grammar. English speakers at that time might have said this sentence instead: "That's an idea of which I've never heard." Do you notice the difference? They would have said of which instead of putting the preposition of