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To: Alas Babylon!

not to nitpick, but my English comp teacher taught us to never start a sentence with a preposition, and to be careful with the use of commas. Wracked? Racked? What has happened to Wikipedia?


40 posted on 07/09/2024 8:02:49 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum
The rule against starting sentences with prepositions is often attributed to 18th and 19th-century grammarians who tried to apply Latin grammar rules to English. Modern linguists generally reject this as an unnecessary and artificial constraint.

--perplexity

Well known example:

"With great power comes great responsibility.""

42 posted on 07/09/2024 8:34:38 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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