The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Stephan Pastis offers some grammatical advice to start the dating new year in the right fashion. (Click the image to be taken to a full-size version at the comic’s Web page.)
I can hear my old middle-school English teacher chuckling fiendishly at that one . . .
Peter
I seem to recall that "Never end a sentence with a preposition" comes from FOWLERS DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, and that Fowler had a number of bees in his bonnet, of which this was one.
And I seem to recall that "Never end a sentence with a preposition" dates back to Latin sentence structure and does not apply to English at all.
"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." – Winston Churchill
This seems appropriate here.
"Preposition", "proposition"!
I finally got it! (…I know. I'm slow.)