be placed at the end of clause or sentence but should always precede the noun or pronoun which it governs. 

should therefore be: 

Who are you talking to? 

To whom are you talking? 

‘To’ is the preposition and ‘whom’ is a relative pronoun. However, as the second example sounds very pompous, this ‘rule’ is often ignored. 

Some other prepositions are: from, above, with, by, of, on, after, for, in, between. 

## REVISING THE POINTS 

◆ Conjunctions or connectives are words that link clauses together. 

◆ If a sentence begins with a conjunction, there must be two clauses following it and they must be separated by a comma. 

◆ Sentences should not start with ‘and’ or ‘but’. 

◆ Relative pronouns are used to introduce a dependent clause in the middle of a main clause. 

◆ A phrase is a group of words that does not make sense on its own. 

◆ Phrases add extra information to the sentence. 

