(Yesterday at 9:29 pm)Fireball Wrote:(February 11, 2025 at 8:15 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I thought dangling participles were the problem.
It's really the prepositions at the ends of sentences, though they are rich fodder for insults. Example- person says, "Where are you going to?". Grammar Nazi says, "Don't end a sentence with a preposition". Original person responds, "OK, where you going to, asshole?".
There's a possibly apocryphal story that Winston Churchill, when called out for ending a sentence with a preposition, replied, 'This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.'
Boru
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