Thread: Do grammatical errors bother you?
View Single Post
Old 11-10-2010, 07:40 PM   #312
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
WT Sharpe's Avatar
 
Posts: 39,072
Karma: 157049943
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrscoach View Post
I'm not a stickler for the 'no ending in a preposition' rule, but you have to admit we tend to tack on preps for no reason. "Where are you at?" when "Where are you?" would work. But in the case of the aforementioned sentence, the 'at' was fighting with the 'of which', IMO. Just awkward to read. They could have even said 'something Jeff is a master at', and I wouldn't have had a problem.

Note that ends in a preposition, and is 'technically' incorrect, but I don't really care.
When I asked my mother on her deathbed where something was "at"; with fading strength she replied, "Behind the 'at'."

My mother was a stickler for proper English to the end!
Last edited by WT Sharpe; 11-10-2010 at 07:43 PM.
WT Sharpe is offline   Reply With Quote