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From: "Excalibur131" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:27:26 -0500
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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:16 PM
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

As I sit here, with my head spinning and my eyeballs rolling, I wonder, "Now
where else can a person go and laugh like this?" :-)

Tom :-D



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