James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> The copy was also littered with 
> sentences that ended with prepositions.

Why is that bad?

The rule to avoid ending sentences with prepositions in English is
completely artificial, invented by one person (you can even find his
name if you search) for a textbook, which got just blindly copied by
other textbook with no rationale or any kind of linguistics research
behind it. It just became a popular notion that everybody blindly
repeated, without any kind of reasoning behind it.

That in itself wouldn't be a bad thing if it really described how actual
fluent English works. However, it doesn't. There are countless examples
where ending a sentence in a preposition is completely fluent,
understandable and appropriate. There's basically nothing wrong with it.

The rule is completely artificial and has no reason to exist.

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                                                          - Warp

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