>>> >>"The apple was beside." - that's a sentence fragment that ends in a
>>> >>preposition.  It's completely unclear what the apple was beside.
>> >
>> >But the reason for it being unclear was not that it ends in the
>> >preposition. It's because it lacks something.
> Yes, it lacks the object that is referenced.  Now you tell me how to
> construct that sentence with the missing object*without*  putting the
> missing object ahead of the preposition.  Oh, and it has to make sense,
> too.;)

Whether it ends in a preposition or not is irrelevant to whether the 
sentence makes sense. The reason "The apple was beside." doesn't make 
sense is not because it ends in a preposition, but because there is some 
part missing from it. I could easily have said "I moved the box that the 
apple was beside." and that would be fine.

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