The English Oracle

"Where are you now at?" — grammatically correct?

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00:00 &Quot;Where Are You Now At?&Quot; — Grammatically Correct?
00:17 Accepted Answer Score 6
00:40 Answer 2 Score 4
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 6


Both are possible in speech, although the first is probably more likely. They can be:

a) an inquiry about someone's location;

b) an inquiry about someone's mental, spiritual or emotional state; or

c) an inquiry about which page someone has reached in a book.




ANSWER 2

Score 4


Neither example feels very comfortable grammatically although I feel this is perhaps a BE view. We used to say 'a preposition should never be used to end a sentence with.' In fact, the use of at in either case seems redundant since both examples make sense without it.