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From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Prepositions
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 09:08:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 09:08:47 1985
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>         Or, as Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, 
> 
>      " A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with."
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Folkins               YABS : If you think education is expensive, 
> ihnp4!alberta!andrew                consider the price of ignorance.

Sir Winston was also credited with the following.  The construction of the
sentence is terribly awkward, but it does avaid ending the sentence with a
preposition.

"That is a situation up with which we will not put."

In this case, it is considered better to end the sentence with a preposition
than to make such an awkward sentence.



-- 

Sarah E. Dugan
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there
 They have to take you in.

                                       -Robert Frost
                                        The Death of the Hired Man

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