Comments on: Preposition Rule

By: Blitz

Blitz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:07:04 +0000

Oh by the way for all those who agree with my feelings.. you could also be mah friends cause we really have something greatly in common. I really like following rules...

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By: Blitz

Blitz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:04:06 +0000

I suggest you guys should follow what is right. You're all know that formally speaking, prepositions must not be at the end of the sentence but why youre not following it. Does it make any sense at all... Perhaps you guys should think again. OK? peaceman

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By: John

John — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:05:11 +0000

It's a zombie rule. No modern usage book recommends it, and yet, for some reason, many people believe they have to follow it.

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By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:43:04 +0000

Congrats, folks -- rarely have I seen a more good-natured and informative discussion!

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By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:01:21 +0000

Maan man kaninyo day-a ano man ang kuon nyong preposition? Rigya sa mon... sa rum-an du lang ah. Sorry, oh i miss the point.

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By: scott

scott — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:18:49 +0000

You can re-arrange any sentence to remove a dangling prepostion, so by leaving one in your sentence it implies that you speak without carefully thinking first.

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By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 25 May 2006 12:44:29 +0000

Mandy, you could not get a date to senior prom. Nikki, you are doing Model UN next year because you miss the smart people. Brandon, thanks! You are rather cool. ^I knew the aforementioned people.^ A O, way to be! [This is one who I do not know.]

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By: S Onosson

S Onosson — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:44:06 +0000

Prepositions in English, whatever they may have started out as, have entered into new categories of speech. Many of them behave much like adverbs, and we wouldn't think twice about ending a sentence with an adverb, surely?

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By: Avrom

Avrom — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:51:42 +0000

Actually, from someone who doesn't have any style manuals handy: Are we really sure that this is even a *prescriptive* rule? That is, is it truly something most style manuals recommend? Or is it one of those "don't start sentences with a conjunction" types of things, that isn't really even part of anyone's *prescriptive* grammar, aside from a few misguided elementary school teachers and the former students they convinced? I thought I remembered that the entire rule was a myth. But perhaps I'm confusing it with another one (like the conjunction rule).

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:21:23 +0000

Oh it just occurs to me that 'with' suffered from loss of cast structure in English too. 'Whom' is becoming old-fashioned and disused as with 'whence' and 'whither'. So where "With whom are you going?" is replaced now by "Who are you going with?", this is much better than the ugly "With who are you going?". Loss of case structure in English is a fact of the language's development. Fighting to retain 'whom' is as much of a lost cause as fighting to retain 'whence' I think... and without these key words, the preposition rule must also fall into disuse, I fear. A

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