tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14906887.post5000930277562501948..comments2023-10-20T09:27:50.697-04:00Comments on Second Glance: With Pretzels, let the Gold lieAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078668225749387024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14906887.post-2912588471533539312007-09-17T23:32:00.000-04:002007-09-17T23:32:00.000-04:00I agree. In fact, I think ending sentences with p...I agree. In fact, I think ending sentences with prepositions is becoming a largely accepted practice. It is only old school grammarians and English major snobs that are still sticklers for this "rule." As Winston Churchill so eloquently put it "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078668225749387024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14906887.post-43715850321820294502007-09-17T11:35:00.000-04:002007-09-17T11:35:00.000-04:00I should add that after a few minutes of debate I ...I should add that after a few minutes of debate I sent the email with the grammatical error included. It just sounded better!chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12147801672562702471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14906887.post-28466003948935420442007-09-17T11:31:00.000-04:002007-09-17T11:31:00.000-04:00I have a musing too, and I will steal your board s...I have a musing too, and I will steal your board space to make my own little personal blog entry.<BR/><BR/>Dangling prepositions are so common and sound so right that they should just be accepted as proper. In an email, I just wrote the sentence "I’ll put another file up unless you don’t need/want me to." I could add "do so" to the end of that sentence, but that feels redundant and sounds too proper for the casual tone I wanted in the email. Can't dangling prepositions be accepted as common so we can all stop facing this conundrum when writing?chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12147801672562702471noreply@blogger.com