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> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To I was always told never to end a sentence with a preposition. Is that s
by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
I was always told never to end a sentence with a preposition. Is that still considered correct grammar? If I was the editor I would have rewritten the title to:
> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths To Which It Could Safely Travel
Better or worse?
Maybe this one:
> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Traveling To Unsafe Depths
- wizofaus 3y agoObligatory Churchill quote ..."This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put".
- Mordisquitos 3y agoBut prepositions are not words to end sentences with!
- mkl 3y agoNot Churchill: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-preposition/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-prepositi... You likely mean "arrant", too.
- rcme 3y agoEnding sentences with prepositions is perfectly fine English. According to this source [0], the original idea behind avoiding ending sentences with prepositions was conceived by people who wanted to align English grammar more closely with Latin grammar. Obviously, that's not an attractive selling point to many English speakers and sentences frequently end in prepositions today. 0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/prepositions-ending-a-sentence-with https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/prepositions-e...
- ghaff 3y agoYour last example may or may not be accurate. Did it actually ever travel to that depth? "to which" is technically EDIT: better formal English. For a headline in mainstream news? I might well give it a pass.
- fn-mote 3y agoYour last one is close but might imply something slightly different. My suggestion: Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Safe Travel Depth
- rcoveson 3y agoThat's pretty good, but keep in mind that it's a headline. Most style guides stipulate alliteration, even at the expense of accuracy and specificity. For example: Sunk Submarine Sued: Design Deadly During Designated Dives
- AlbertCory 3y ago+1 to that. Not because of the (non-existent) rule, but because "depth" is a stronger word than "to." It's almost always better for the last word to have some punch.
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- vlod 3y agoNot exactly the point you're asking, but pg made a point [0] about spelling that I think about: pg: "11 yo asked why he had to learn spellings. I told him honestly that although spelling may not really matter, if he couldn't spell, people would think he was stupid. And that was sufficiently motivating." Can I End a Sentence with a Preposition? [1] Generally you can (as others and the article points out), but I would suggest you use it in a very limited manner. I still hear my high school teachers frightening chastising voice and it stops me doing it. :) When people realize they can do it (or hear others doing it) they tend to overuse it for everything and it can drive those around you mad. That's when you get in the territory that pg describes IMHO. One things that makes my skin crawl, is when I hear people speaking (loudly) into their mobile (which for some reason always seems to be in speaker mode) "Hello? Where you at?". /shiver [0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1307987891658858502 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1307987891658858502 [1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/end-sentence-preposition/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/end-sentence-preposition/