relative clause preposition (stranding) – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 102 in the category of CLAUSES that are relative is defined as:

defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses ending in a preposition, with ‘who/which/that’ as the complement of the preposition.

*This point overlaps other categories and is already covered here.

Here are the 4 most common prepositions at the end of a sentence.  When we do a manual search on the concordances, we find that more than half of them do not contain the ‘relative pronoun + clause’ we are looking for.

1 WITH . 612732

2 FOR . 570559

The new site matches you with housing that you qualify for.

3 TO . 454415

4 OF . 311474

The above pattern allows us to return to iWeb and search for clusters.  Interestingly our most common one is B2 on EVP.

1 THAT I KNOW OF . 3387
2 THAT WE KNOW OF . 752

3 WHO YOU TALK TO . 454 (note ‘depending on’)

4 THAT I WORK WITH . 394 5 THAT YOU CARE ABOUT . 346 6 THAT WE WORK WITH . 332 7 THAT IT COMES WITH . 210 8 THAT YOU WORK WITH . 200

9 THAT THEY CARE ABOUT . 188

11 THAT WE KNOW ABOUT . 162 12 THAT THEY WORK WITH . 154 13 THAT WE CARE ABOUT . 146 14 THAT I AGREE WITH . 135 15 THAT IT CAME WITH . 130

16 THAT YOU SPEAK OF . 120

19 THAT I DISAGREE WITH . 112
20 THAT THEY USED TO . 109