A child enjoyed having a bedtime story every night, but his mother insisted it be something educational. Finally, when the mother brought the History of Australia to the bedside, the child complained, "What did you bring that book that I don't like to be read to out of on down under up for?"
How many prepositions can you chain at the end of a sentence?
Then there is
the story about Winston Churchill:
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Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”
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