How not to end a sentence with a preposition?

[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions? Sam[/nq]
If that really is what you want to say, you'd do much better to leave the sentence as it is: moving the preposition would sound strange. If your subject-matter is less domestic, you could use the form "The

[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
Formal but stilted, carries basically the same sense:

I have no toys with which Jimmy can play.
Slightly different sense:
Jimmy can play with no toys I have.

[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
It's pretty widely accepted these days to end a sentence with. But there are many ways you can express that idea without.
"If Jimmy wants to play with my toys he's *** out of luck." "I have no toys with wh

[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
"I entirely lack any items appropriate to the diversion of James."

[nq:2]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition:[/nq]
[nq:1]It's pretty widely accepted these days to end a sentence with.[/nq]
This is a popular way around your problem:
"A preposition is something you should never end a sentence with, you *** pedant."

[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
Perhaps Jimmy could amuse himself by burning your grammar book. If its author is available, add him to the pyre.

Mark Barratt
Budapest

Sam wrote on 06 Apr 2005:
[nq:1]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a more formal way, especially without ending it with a preposition: "I have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
Leave the sentence as it is. It is perfectly formal and 100% correct. There is no preposition at the end of that sentence. Rather, "of" is a particle attached to the verb "play" i

[nq:1]Sam wrote on 06 Apr 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]I would like to rewrite the following sentence in a ... have no toys for Jimmy to play with." Any suggestions?[/nq]
[nq:1]Leave the sentence as it is. It is perfectly formal and 100% correct. There is no preposition at the end ... though "play with" appears as an idiom in some dictionaries, it usually means something else, like "toy with" or "****

[nq:2]Sam wrote on 06 Apr 2005: Leave the sentence as ... it usually means something else, like "toy with" or "**********".[/nq]
[nq:1]This gets back to that idea about hyphenating ambiguous phrasal verbs. The stress on the normal verb + preposition is on the verb, while it is on the final part of the phrasal verb: "He played with my mind." "He played with the toy."[/nq]
Huh? Aren't they b

[nq:2]This gets back to that idea about hyphenating ambiguous phrasal ... "He played with my mind." "He played with the toy."[/nq]
[nq:1]Huh? Aren't they both dot-dash-dot-dot-dash?[/nq]
Not in Barcelona. DING DONG DING DING DING DONG there. But you knew that.