Re: Prepositions ending sentences

Subject: Re: Prepositions ending sentences
From: Jim Venis <ujv01 -at- EAGLE -dot- UNIDATA -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 09:11:54 MDT

Barb Philbrick asks:

> I've got one of those niggling questions - how do other people feel about
> ending sentences with prepositions?

I can never hear this question without thinking of Winston Churchill's angry
response when an inexperienced speechwriter corrected one of Winston's sen-
tences for this "fault":

Churchill said, "This is an impertinence up with which I will not put!"

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