November 27, 2008, 01:35 AM
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DavidÃsimo
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: North America
Posts: 5,664
Native Language: American English
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty
Lots of people teach that it is wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but, alas, there really isn't such a rule. The "rule" you've heard about was fostered a long time ago. Its aim was to make the English language align better with its Latin roots. The problem with this "rule" is that English grammar didn't come from Latin, so it seems a bit silly to rearrange our sentences to try to conform to a rule that actually breaks the rules of English grammar.
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There's a famous Winston Churchill quote, where he allegedly responded to someone who told him he couldn't end a sentence with a preposition. He said:
That is something up with which I will not put.
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