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To: Red Badger
Never end a sentence with a preposition..............

That has long been a pet peeve of mine.

It was drilled into me by my sixth grade English teacher, Miss Erbaugh, who also taught sentence diagraming - both most likely absent in today's "Big Education/Indoctrination industrial Complex".

8 posted on 02/26/2021 6:15:30 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: newfreep

Kids today don’t even know what ‘sentence diagramming’ is..........................


12 posted on 02/26/2021 6:16:45 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: newfreep
Never end a sentence with a preposition..............

Is a preposition an acceptable word to end an infinitive phrase with?

30 posted on 02/26/2021 8:06:58 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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