Or a proposition :)
I never followed the rule anyway, so I’m not sure what he is referring to.
I always prefer not to torture my sentences in order to follow this silly rule. It never made much sense, anyway.
It is ridiculous to impose Latin grammar rules on English. Shall we start declining nouns in a case structure, thereby confusing everyone?
Interesting bit of information about the supposed formation of this rule. I always try to keep Dryden’s rule when writing. its more difficult when speaking.
These grammar rules are nonsense up with which I will not put!
Screw all that crap. I’m upset that I seldom ever see the Oxford comma used anywhere.
Tom, Dick and Harry (future legal problems . . . does the estate get divided up into 2 parts or 3? Legally, just 2)
Tom, Dick, and Harry (correct)
"A preposition is something you should never end a sentence with."
“This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put.”
Winston Churchill
And I happen to like John Dryden's work.
Joking aside, I think avoiding a prepositional ending does sound cleaner, but it's like splitting an infinitive: there are times when it is simply ridiculous. It's not a point I'd quibble about.
I am constantly correcting my friends that they should not end a sentence with a preposition,
When one of them asked “Where are you at?”, I told him that you never end a sentence with a preposition.
His reply, which has now become standard in my circle of friends:
“Sorry; where are you at, a$$hole?”
Was it Churchill who said, “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
Ping to Grammar Nazis...come on in.
Grammar rules are like speed limits. Often they are ignored. But, they are there for a reason.
I will trade you the odd preposition for a complete attack on people using their pronouns in the wrong order (”Me and my friend.”
Up with which I will not put.
What? Is a preposition a bad word to end a sentence with?
Or, as the little boy sick in bed asked his mom, “What did you bring that book I wanted to be read to out of up for?”
Language rules express the way people speak, not the way grammarians thought they did 300 years ago. How do people speak? Even if you don’t like it, that’s the language, not what’s in the book.
And it doesn’t matter what modern-day authorities say.
A preposition is OK to end a sentence with.
“Why You Should Ignore the Rule to Never End a Sentence With a Preposition”
There’s another rule: Never split an infinitive: Don’t write “to never end a sentence . . . .” but rather “never to end a sentence. . . . “
Where are you at?
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.
If George Washington had not defeated Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown, we would still be speaking English in this country, Yo!