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Situation I Thought Sentence Preposition Minor Issue Ends

Front minor issue here

That is a situation I have not thought of.
Back sentence ends with a preposition

Where possible, you should avoid ending a sentence in a preposition. However, after shuffling the words so that the preposition is not at the end, the re-structured version often sounds contrived and unnatural

That is a situation of which I have not thought

solution to contrivedness is usually to reword

That is a situation I have not considered.

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