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From: Carol Moser <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:16:10 -0500
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As Winston Churchill put it "That is nonsense up with which I will not put!"

Excalibur131 wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
> To: <>
> 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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