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Area number one: not ending headlines with prepositions.

• erex78 12y ago
  My first thought...
• soneca 12y ago
  Why not? (serious question from a non-native english speaker)
  • rhizome 12y ago
    There's a decent discussion here with a variety of perspectives: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16/when-is-it-appropriate-to-end-a-sentence-in-a-preposition http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16/when-is-it-app...
  • malchow 12y ago
    The Latinate syntactical construction norms that moved over to English included, among many others, one around prepositions (from the Latin prae, meaning before) being placed before the object with which it is linked, never after. It certainly isn't a rule, per se; and ending a sentence with a preposition is not wrong. But it is stylistically less desirable. Dryden hated that Ben Jonson occasionally ended sentences with prepositions. He gave the norm added power and it has lasted, since his 1672 criticism, another 250 years. Dryden never said that ending a sentence with a preposition was wrong, only that it was ugly. (Incidentally, Winston Churchill never said that this was a grammar rule "up with which I will not put." See: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.h...)
• normloman 12y ago
  That "don't end sentences with a preposition" thing hasn't been a widely accepted rule of English for decades now. Why are you fighting a hopeless battle?
  • dang 12y ago
    And Churchill didn't even say the funniest line about it.