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The girl he is in love with studies at the University.
It is his talents he relies on.
In formal style however, the preposition precedes the connective:
The man about whom I told you is a relative of mine.
3) exclamatory sentences:
What a nice place to live in!
4) passive constructions:
The doctor was immediately sent for.
How strange it is to be talked to in this way.
5) some syntactical patterns with the infinitive or gerund:
He is difficult to deal with.
It is not worth worrying abont.
This is not a suitable house to live in.
Note:
If two or more prepositions refer to one word, the second (third) preposition may be used absolutely:
Holly thought of the lashes above and below Val’s eyes, especially below.
His wife was attached to, and dependent on, him.
THE CONJUNCTION
A conjunction is a function word indicating the connection between two notional words, phrases, clauses, or
sentences.
Morphological composition
§ 250. According to their morphological structure conjunctions fall into the following types:
1. Simple conjunctions:
and, or, but, till, after, that, so, where, when.
2. Derived conjunctions;
until, unless, seeing, supposing, provided.
3. Compound conjunctions:
whereas, wherever.
4. Composite conjunctions:
as well as, in case, for fear, on condition that, on the ground that, as long as, etc.
Several conjunctions form correlative pairs, though strictly speaking the first element is not a conjunction:
both ... and, either ... or, neither ... nor, not only ... but (also), whether ...or.