In a bid to raise the standard of the blogosphere, I wish to point out that too many bloggers are ending their sentences with prepositions. This is the sort of thing I mean: "Just had an amusing case of passing a message along electronically at the Telco conference I am at."
Awful. As Winston Churchill said about such things, "This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put."
LINK: 'Preposititions at the End,' part of Guide to Grammar & Style - 'P'
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Nothing wrong with terminating prepositions if they make the sentence flow better (in your example, it clearly doesn't). My favourite story:
ReplyDeleteWoman on a bus says to a fellow passenger "So where are you going to?"
Other passenger replies "You know, you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition."
Woman says "OK: So where are you going to, bitch?"
:D
ReplyDeleteAlthough, how many bloggers gave a damn about sentence flow?
and in your very next post you write "They's not"
ReplyDeletegave me a laugh anyway. because you meant to? :)
Thanks Phil. I did intend to put a preposition at the end of a sentence in that post (just for a laugh, and to make Josh's point), but I didn't intend that one. Fixed now. :-)
ReplyDeleteGood point, Josh. That was Churchill's point. Know the rule, but know when it needs to broken. Nice joke too. I was going to post a similar one about an ebonics student at university:
Black Student: Yo! Where's the library at?
Grammar Student: One shouldn't end one's sentences on a preposition.
Black Student (thinks): Okay. Where's the library at, motherfucker!?
Oh, these grammar jokes. They kill me. :-)
DPF isn't conservative, but liberal...
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