Timeline for When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | This answer was stitched from three other answers, where two ought have been edits. Here is some commentary on one of those. | |
| Dec 7, 2015 at 13:15 | history | edited | Kit Z. Fox♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 18:57 | comment | added | Sk Johnson | "I'd like to." Clearly this is not a full sentence. Certain prepositions in certain contexts require some other word to follow them. What no one seems to be aware of, here, is that in the vast majority of cases where one does end a sentence with a preposition, the preposition can just be entirely omitted without changing the meaning of the sentence. Yes, there are always exceptions... that is a given in English. Regardless of the analysis of conversational English... comprehensive understanding of sentence structure is still a vitally important aspect of language. | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 13:20 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | try convincing the dean of the university's Linguistics Department how it 'must be correct because so many people use it so often' and see if that gets you anywhere – Actually, linguists tend to be descriptivists instead of prescriptivists nowadays. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 20:40 | history | edited | Sk Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 19:47 | history | edited | Sk Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 19:42 | history | answered | Sk Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |