Listening to two English Profs on NPR, I learned that most of us were taught incorrectly that it is improper to end a sentence with a preposition. Apparently this was started by some of the intellectual elite that thought English was inferior to Latin, so they decided to try to make them the same. Unfortunately, English descended from ancestral German, not Latin. The same rules don't apply.
When Winston Churchill was criticized for ending a sentence with a preposition, he responded with "that is the sort of thing with which I will not put." Often the prepositions are really part of the verbs as is the case with "to put up" and "to put up with". Now that's news you can live with.
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