Monday, November 3, 2008

Ha!

One of my strongly held grammatical beliefs has official backing. I knew that, but I stumbled upon an online source.
A note about ending a sentence with a preposition. Some believe there's something wrong with that. It's a myth. One can find sentences ending with preps in the lines of some of the finest writers in history: Chaucer, Swift, Kipling, Shakespeare and so on. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" -- Try rephrasing that line from The Tempest. See what inelegant glob results. This canard about no-prepositions-at-the-end belongs in the same dustbin as "Thou shalt not split an infinitive."


Yes, it is not quite 4am. Just because I've closed, doesn't mean I'm sleeping any better. Maybe after the election.

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