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So it is actually okay to end a sentence with a prep er prepsition
guess I've been slave to a myth according to NPR. Some gal wrote a book on gramar rules and she shared this one with the audience.
Her logic is/was that not ending sentence with prepstion is a latin rule and English is a germantic language. Not totally sure on the germantic. Might have been something else.
NPR stands for National Public Radio.
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Re: So it is actually okay to end a sentence with a prep er prepsition

Originally Posted by
Desire007
guess I've been slave to a myth according to NPR. Some gal wrote a book on gramar rules and she shared this one with the audience.
Her logic is/was that not ending sentence with prepstion is a latin rule and English is a germantic language. Not totally sure on the germantic. Might have been something else.
NPR stands for National Public Radio.
Sure. Lots of English sentences end with a preposition.
"What are you talking about?"
"What's this thing for?"
"She's the person I sent it to."
"The room's been paid for."
etc., etc.
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Re: So it is actually okay to end a sentence with a prep er prepsition
It's an artificial 'rule', like the one telling us not to split infinitives, that has been widely ignored since it was formulated.
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