Is It Ever OK To End a Sentence With a Preposition?

Word Smarts ^ | 11/18/2024 | Rachel Gresh

[Uncle Miltie]

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we shall not put!

[Red Badger]

That’s something I will not put up with!.................

[enumerated]

It depends on what you’re doing it for.

[dfwgator]

A snobbish English teacher was sitting in an Atlanta airport coffee shop waiting for her flight back to Connecticut, when a friendly Southern Belle sat down next to her.

“Where y’all goin’ to?” asked the Southern Belle.

Turning her nose in the air, the snob replied “I don’t answer people who end their sentences with prepositions.”

The Southern Belle thought a moment, and tried again.

“Where y’all goin’ to, BITCH?”

[Carry_Okie]

It depends upon what you’re into.

[glennaro]

I use the word “huh”: “Where are you going to, huh?”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Ya beat me to it!

I was going to write “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something we will not up with put.” but I guess I don’t need to write it any more.

[TexasGator]

“Where are you at?” or “Where are you going to?”

“Where you at?” or “Where you going?

[Labyrinthos]

In all series, almost any sentence that ends with as preposition can be rewritten to end without a preposition. Writers who end sentences with prepositions are generally lazy — at least that’s what Grandma taught me.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL

[pepsi_junkie]

It should always be before a noun, never after.

[JimRed]

Whatchoo say dat for?

[PGR88]

The latter sounds unnatural

To people who use their speech and like it to be precise, its not unnatural at all.

[Frank Drebin]

If it's good enough for Obi-Wan it's good enough for me.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
(From some forgotten English class)

[RoosterRedux]

Or as Churchill said (possibly apocryphal), “That is something up with which I will not put.”

[Bob434]

well yes, as long as...

[j.havenfarm]

I’ve never wanted to.

[FatherofFive]

A kid from Alabama gets accepted to Harvard. Confused on his first day, he asks an upperclassman, “Excuse me sir. I’m new here and I don’t know my way around. Can you tell me where the library is at?” The upperclassman responds. “I don’t know who you are or how you got here. But this is Harvard, the finest, most prestigious and renowned University in the world. We have very high standards. We do not go about ending sentences in prepositions. Rephrase your question.” The new kid says. “Sure thing. “Excuse me sir. I’m new here and I don’t know my way around. Can you tell me where the library is at, a$$hole?”