Congratulations OP, for realizing English is very illogical. Casting aside the various silly rules to apply in many cases, the bane of English is making sentences flow logically, seem proper and wording it in a way that's overall pleasant to understand. Ever since the birth of the English language hundreds of years ago, the very nature of it has allowed for it to change rapidly, undergo changes in syntax, mingle with its previous rules and just fucking mutate in general, which is why the grammar of the English language is often an inconsistent clusterfuck.