(11 hours ago)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(Yesterday at 9:29 pm)Fireball Wrote: 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
That was Yoda, not Churchill.