Learn English – Can we begin a question with “To” or “From”

prepositionsquestionsword-order

Please consider the following questions.

From which shed should I take it?

To which house should I send it?

From which printer is it being printed?

Are they correct?

Best Answer

Yes.

They're correct, but they also sound a little stilted. There used to be a myth that it's bad to end a sentence with a preposition, and in some languages it really doesn't make sense to end a sentence with a preposition, but it's often pretty natural in English, especially when the sentence is a question.

These sound more natural, at least in contemporary English:

Which shed should I take it from?

Which house should I send it to?

Which printer is it being printed from?*


*To me, a native speaker of American English, "printed from" sounds wrong in this sentence. I'd say "printed on" or even "printed at". But as the commenters have noted, this usage varies.

Related Topic