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To: Moonman62

There is a huge difference between written English, which is more formal, and spoken English which is assisted by facial expression and inflection. It is fine to end converstional sentences with prepositions. My pet peeve in written and conversational is “this” and “her” and “his”. I end up saying back “her who?” “this what?” a lot.


31 posted on 05/18/2019 7:05:37 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have awinner)
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To: yldstrk

My pet peeve in written and conversational is “this” and “her” and “his”.


Pronouns should be defined and distinct.


46 posted on 05/18/2019 8:03:03 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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