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Zoog mah rules!
Thanks for the chuckles!
Hey, please ignore the rest of this post...I miss being a teacher, and the rest of this post is my self-indulgent pedantry.
The "no preposition at the end of the sentence" rule was the invention of some guys in England in the 1700s. They wanted to standardize English grammar, and they imposed some of the grammar rules derived from Latin onto English. English has Germanic roots as well as Latin/French roots. The grammatical structures of these root languages conflict with each other. Grammar rules should help to clarify meaning, not contort the expression of meaning. I hope that we can dispense with grammar rules that don't naturally flow from our language. If you read this far, let me tell you that it felt pretty good to use my brains again-- exhausting but good! haha! Hope it was kinda interesting for you.
Have a great day, everybody!
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That’s why they say English is one of the hardest languages to learn. I had 3 years of high school Latin, 1 year each of French and Spanish and 2 years of college German (mien Gott). I must say that Latin made Spanish a breeze and still helps deciphering new words.
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My high school English teacher, Mrs. Page, would have loved your discussion. She laughingly taught us the preposition "rule" as well as telling us that using a double negative was "redundant".
She probably presumed that the predisposition to position a preposition with precision at the end of a pronouncement was not a propitious, but a presumptuous, proposition.