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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:24:39 -0600
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050301181103.027e1ef8@pop.sprynet.com>


Oh yeah, and I heard my high school English teacher turn over in her grave.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/
TMG sentences:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell A. Martin [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:17 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do

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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