Forbidding the ending of a sentence with a preposition. I obey it in my writing, but don’t understand it.
>> Forbidding the ending of a sentence with a preposition. <<
Many excellent writers end sentences that way, and the practice goes back centuries. In my opinion, when you end a sentence with a word like “with,” you are simply using that word as an adverb, rather than as a preposition.
Anyway, I think the “rule” in question is silly, probably imposed by 18th-century grammarians who thought English should be governed by certain patterns of Latin syntax.
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put!