Can sentences end with a preposition? Yes! Grant assures a listener that all experts, including the most conservative of linguists and lexicographers, agree that a preposition as the last word in a sentence is something up with which we shall put. This is part of a complete episode.
Leave a comment
1 comment
More from this show
When you’re talking about the location of an inanimate object, is it okay to say that it lives there, as in The peanut butter lives in that cabinet or The flashlight lives on that shelf? Strictly speaking, of course, that object isn’t...
Sean in Oneonta, New York, says that when he was growing up in New Jersey, his family would pile in the car and set off on a surprise adventure, whether a short distance or long, and the kids would be told only that they were going on Buxtehude...
This reminds me of one of my favorite jokes…
It seems a man was visiting Harvard, and stopped a student to ask a question,
“Excuse me, but can you tell me where the library is at?”
The student sniffed, and replied “A Harvard man knows that you NEVER end a sentence with a preposition”
To which the man replied, “Let me rephrase my request. Can you tell me where the library is, Jackass?”