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I disagreed with the show's advice that it is ok to end a sentence with a prepostion. Ending a sentence with a prepostion reduces the emphasis of the sentence. One can construct a more precise sentence than one that ends in a prepostion. This is as bad as starting a sentence with a conjunction. It is wrong to accept this merely because "we understand what people are trying to say." The rules of grammar exist for a reason and should be followed. If we are not going to follow them we might as well stop teaching English in schools.


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Any grammar that's good enough for the Good Book is good enough for me.

2 Peter 2:2 ... by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Et al.

And almost every other sentence starts with And.

Them wuz real skollers thet dun translated that.


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But a sentence should stand alone.

Opening conjunctions suggest there is context outside the setence that is related to it.


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