On 08/05/2008 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> > (Oh crap, now my old teacher
> > would whack my knuckles for ending a sentence with a preposition.)
I hope you would say, "Listen up you old biddy, if ending sentences
with
prepositions was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, to
say nothing of Winston Churchill and the Queen herself, it's good
enough for me."
Better, of course, would be to say, "Look, lady, in that context, it's
not a preposition, it's a particle and there's nothing wrong with ending
a sentence with a particle. You are right, however, that it's wrong, a
sentence to end, a preposition with."
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