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> If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,” then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with. Ending a sentence with a
by MatthewWilkes 10y ago
> If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,” then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with.
Ending a sentence with a preposition? I hope for the author's sake that no conservative grammarians arbitrarily hold that against him.
- brianmcc 10y agoI noticed he linked that very word to http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/ending-sentences-with-prepositions http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/ending-sentences-wit...
- cafard 10y agoFowler's Modern English Usage has no problem with that, or with split infinitives, to name two standard middle school bugaboos.
- MatthewWilkes 10y agoIndeed, it's now widely considered to be correct. The same wasn't true just a few years ago. It's ironic that he uses a construction that would have signalled him as unworthy of employment to his spiritual predecessors. Language change is a constant thing, using differences between your written English and that of a potential employee as a proxy for intelligence rather than group membership is foolish and exclusionary. It's only really relevant if the person needs to write in a specific register for their job.