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Originally Posted by akiburis
Actually, it's very unlikely that anyone would have reminded you of this. As a strict rule of usage, it was dead even before Fowler's day, I think, and he certainly didn't prescribe it. Nor has any intelligent prescriptivist since Fowler. But it survives, indeed thrives, as a cherished straw man in antiprescripivist polemic.
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It may be true that avoiding sentences that end in prepositions is a practice that died long ago but just try to tell that to your teacher or prof after he/she/it has graded your paper.