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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:27:56 -0500
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Darrell A. Martin wrote:
>At 05:30 PM 3/1/2005, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> >Isn't that ending a sentence with a preposition? Tsk, tsk.
---clipped---
>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.

And then there was the statement made by Winston Churchill when a lady at a
party chided him for ending a sentence with a preposition. He replied
something like: "That, madame, is something up with which I will not put".

Notice that he did not, a preposition , end the sentence with, buster. Nor
did I end that last sentence with a preposition. <VBG>


Lee Hoffman/KY
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