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Where Did That Preposition Get To?

Posted by Editormum on Wednesday, 2 April 2003 in Grammar Myths, Usage and Diction |

I  think it was Winston Churchill who said, in response to a misguided editor’s rearranging his words so that a sentence would not end with a preposition, “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”  [Sometimes quoted as “arrant nonsense…,” which I think is eminently better.] The point is that […]

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