Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: PeteePie

•Every time I hear Paul McCartney sing, “In this ever-changing world in which we live in,” I cringe. Correct usage is “… in which we live.”

My third grade teacher said ‘Prepositions aren’t to end sentences with.”

Ha!

Forget proper English... no one is teaching it anymore.


10 posted on 09/08/2014 6:47:50 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: SMARTY

You are correct...proper English is raciss...


16 posted on 09/08/2014 6:50:58 AM PDT by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: SMARTY

Or... John Mellencamp: “I cannot forget from where it is that I come from...”


22 posted on 09/08/2014 6:52:45 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: SMARTY

It sounds like

“But if this ever changing world in which we’re living”

but the actual words are

“But if this ever changing world in which we’re living”

Clumsy lyrics but proper English.


26 posted on 09/08/2014 6:54:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: SMARTY

“In this ever-changing world in which we live in,” I cringe.

I think it’s “In this ever-changing world in which we’re living”.


35 posted on 09/08/2014 7:04:10 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: SMARTY

Could have fixed it by singing in this ever changing world in which we’re living.


39 posted on 09/08/2014 7:06:21 AM PDT by raccoonradio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson