angry_zombie
okay i know im using incorrect grammar here and everything but my question has to do with preposistions. like i think you cant end a sentence with one. which means the last sentence would be incorrect. or for example: I would like those ones. feedback please!
Common errors with prepositions include "Where's my coat at?" and "Do you know what this belongs to?" and "I haven't heard of that movie; is it one you've heard of?" In most cases, the word at the end can either be removed completely or moved to earlier in the sentence.
In your example, "I would like those ones," the sentence isn't incorrect because of a preposition, but because of the object at the end. A better way to write the sentence would include an actual name of an object or group of objects. You could also say "I would like one of those." "ones" itself is not grammatical because of the plural; one is only one, no matter how many "one"s you have. More than one, it becomes "some", "a few", "a couple", etc. You could say, in conversation, "I would like that one," but in conversation, grammar rules normally go away because of dialects in different areas.
For my examples, see which sounds better:
Where's my coat at?
Where's my coat? (The "at" is not needed.)
Do you know what this belongs to?
Do you know to what this belongs? (This is the technically correct way to write it, however, it is very formal. The same thing is true of the movie example.)
Hope that helps!
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