And lo On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:55:29 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:51:58 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Warp wrote:
>>> It's ok to end a sentence in a preposition,
>>
>> Even the guy who invented the rule said it was OK as long as the
>> preposition was necessary. The actual rule is to not add an extra
>> preposition that doesn't change the sentence.
>>
>> I.e., "Where is the library at?" can be just as easily written "Where is
>> the library?"
>>
>> On the other hand, "Who did you give it to?" is fine, because you can't
>> say "Who did you give it?"
>
> Except that it should be "Whom", IIRC. ;-)

Or to be precise "To whom did you give it?" :-)

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