Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!sed408 From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Prepositions Message-ID: <1116@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 09:08:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1116 Posted: Thu Aug 22 09:08:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:28:39 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 34 > 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 ########################################################################### # AT&T Bell Labs IH 1D-408 The Forest (home) # # Naperville-Wheaton Rd. 1353 Crab Apple Court Apt. 101 # # Naperville, Illinois 60566 Naperville, Illinois 60540 # # (312) 979 - 5545 (312) 355 - 0445 # ###########################################################################