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From: "Peter B.Hill" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:27:31 -0500
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And then there is this one:

Said the little boy to his mother: "Why did you bring that book, I
didn't want to be read to out of up for?

Anyone want to try for six prepositions?

Pete Hill

At 10:55 PM 3/1/2005 -0800, John Davis wrote:
>Always gleefully willing to jump on the opportunity to stir a pot <vbg>,
>I gleaned the following examples from "The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of
>English Usage", that show some uses of the preposition at the end of the
>sentence at various points in history:
>
>"Thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with"
>(William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1606)
>
>"The bodies that those souls were frighted from." (Ben Jonson, Catiline,
>1611)
>
>"Now," thought he, "I see the dangers that Mistrust and Timorous were
>driven back by." (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, 1678)
>
>"Fanny could with difficulty give the smile that was here asked for."
>(Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814)
>
>"These are some of the placid blessings I promised myself the enjoyment
>of." (Samuel Johnson, The Idler, 1758)
>
>"He had enough money to settle down on." (James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914)
>
>"The University is one most people have heard of (Robert Frost, letter,
>1936)
>
>The folks at Merriam-Webster claim that the "cherished superstition"
>regarding ending prepositions that found its way into several standard
>school texts in the early 19th century began with one John Dryden, a
>17th century English poet, playwright and essayist in a 1672 piece of
>criticism entitled, "Defence of the Epilogue." It is thought that Dryden
>developed the idea because he composed some of his pieces in Latin and
>then translated them into English, "apparently for greater elegance or
>propriety of expression." Merriam-Webster's states that "recent
>commentators . . . are unanimous in their rejection of the notion that
>ending a sentence with a preposition is an error or and offense against
>propriety."
>
>It appears that the final preposition is something we should learn to
>live with, and certainly be tolerant of, for it is not something that we
>will soon get away from, rather it is a usage we may delight in, and
>something we may capitalize on, and give credence to, for whatever it
>may be good for.
>
>John, smugly listening to the muted rumble of a hundred thousand English
>teachers turning over in their graves.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:30 AM
>Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
>
>
> > Isn't that ending a sentence with a preposition? Tsk, tsk.
> >
> > 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: Excalibur131 [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:24 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
> > SNIPPED
> > , at the beginning of, and at the end of.
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
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