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To: DannyTN

What book or movie is the picture of the pyramids lifting off from? (That grammar looks wrong, but I don’t feel like editing it.)


14 posted on 11/07/2015 8:36:13 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

Neither. The link implies it’s just some original art for a computer wallpaper.

http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/originals/2012/Creative_Wallpaper_Flying_pyramids_035386_.jpg


15 posted on 11/07/2015 8:38:17 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: married21
Grammar myths #1: is it wrong to end a sentence with a preposition?

"In fact, there are four main types of situation in which it is more natural to end a sentence or clause with a preposition:

passive structures (she enjoys being fussed over)

relative clauses (they must be convinced of the commitment that they are taking on)

infinitive structures (Tom had no-one to play with)

questions beginning with who, where, what, etc. (what music are you interested in?)"

16 posted on 11/07/2015 8:44:12 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: married21
(What book or movie is the picture of the pyramids lifting off from? (That grammar looks wrong, but I don’t feel like editing it.)

Churchill's take:

Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”


28 posted on 11/07/2015 10:12:09 AM PST by caveat emptor
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