Timeline for When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
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| Dec 23, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @SkJohnson by the same reasoning you should never buy a corsage for a date to a prom, because it's illegal to transport dead bodies unless you are a licensed coroner or undertaker. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:33 | comment | added | Sk Johnson | The fact that it is a "rule" is implicitly found in the breaking down of the the name of what it is and a working comprehension of prefixes, suffixes, and their special case definitions - preposition = pre - position - pre by definition means before the base. The prefix attached to its own name defines the fact that it precedes the thing it modifies. Therefore it is absolutely incorrect to use a pre-position in the post-position. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I already +1’ed this ages ago, but I just realised now that there's a bit of inaccuracy in it: prepositions could occasionally come after their objects in Latin, though normally only immediately after them then. The most common example is the preposition cum with personal pronouns, where the result is usually perceived as a single word: mecum, tecum, nobiscum, vobiscum, etc. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | David Pugh | I knew the general strictures on pedantic junk grammar, but am grateful for the Dryden story, which I didn't know. Myself, I accept split infinitives in others, but I just cannot bring myself to boldly go myself. I just can't; fingernails on the blackboard. | |
| Dec 20, 2013 at 13:12 | history | bounty ended | RegDwigнt | ||
| S Dec 18, 2013 at 20:04 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 16:06 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @EdwinAshworth I think probably most are covered in what I say about the pre- position being more graceful sometimes, and having a large distance between a preposition and what it relates to being a bad idea. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 16:04 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Though I'm sure there are some expressions ending in prepositions that should not be come up with - probably for other reasons. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 16:04 | history | edited | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 15:51 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |