In many aspects, the Spanish and English language are like the mirror image of each other. They seem to have the opposite structures. For example, nouns usually go before adjectives in Spanish but adjectives go before nouns in English. Another contrary case is the placement of prepositions in questions. In Spanish, prepositions tend to go before the question word at the beginning of the question, whereas in English, the prepositions go at the end of the end of the question.
Who were you talking to?
Where did she come from?
Who does he live with?
What are you waiting for?
As you know, in a regular phrase, you need an object after prepositions. In questions, like the ones above, there is no object after the preposition. So, where is the object? We’re actually waiting for the object to appear as the answer.
Who were you talking to? My mother.
I was talking to my mother.
Where did she come from? The mall.
She came from the mall.
Who does he live with? His parents.
He lives with his parents.
What are they waiting for? The bus.
They waiting for the bus.
So, what are thinking about?
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