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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Actually, ending sentences in prepositions is not incorrect.
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Thanks for the helpful grammar lesson, Worldwalker. I learn something new every day! Apparently, I missed the preposition rule when I was exempted from middle-school English classes. I'm sure that's not the only important information that I missed.
I just looked up the preposition rule in a reference book entitled
English Grammar Simplified. It states:
"The word
preposition is derived from the Latin
pre, before, and
pono, place. The
preposition was originally so called because in Latin it was always
placed before its object. In English the preposition ordinarily precedes its object, but may at times appropriately, and very forcibly, follow its object, even when the preposition thus ends a clause or sentence, as the following example shows:
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
—Lowell Among My Books, Second Series, "Garfield."
"When used with the relative pronoun
that, the preposition
must follow its object: This is the book
that I came
for. In the English language the object of a preposition is the word that
follows it in thought, not necessarily in position."
Very interesting. Thanks again for enlightening me. Those websites you mentioned are helpful as well.