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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:16:46 +0000
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At 05:30 PM 3/1/2005, Teresa Elliott wrote:
>Isn't that ending a sentence with a preposition? Tsk, tsk.
>
>Teresa Ghee Elliott

Hi, Teresa:

The prohibition against ending a sentence with a preposition is a Latin rule of grammar that English (as spoken, even by the educated) has never subscribed to. English uses prepositions adverbially all the time, making a preposition something it is perfectly acceptable to end a sentence with.

Darrell

P.S. You may chuckle that I ended my paragraph with a preposition. Did you notice I ended *both* sentences that way?


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/on

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