Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

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.