preposition? help please

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0 My strength is not in English grammar. However, I am trying.  It seems to me that 30 plus years ago, when I was in the sixth grade or so someone taught me that you cannot end a sentence with a prepostion.  02br02br00So a sentence / question such as "What project did you work on?" would be incorrect.02br02br00While "On which project did you work?" would be correct.02br02br00Is my understanding of this correct or am I missing something, probably the latter.0-

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

0Yes and no.02br
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00There is a belief that you can't end a sentence with ANY preposition at all. That's not true. 01i00What project did you work on?02i00 is just fine. No one would think "On what project did you work?" is preferable. Can you imagine one of our comic heros saying "This is another fine mess into which you have gotten us!"?02br
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00What you shouldn't do is write something like this: 01i00Hey, Dude, where're you at?02i0-

Yankee · Answer

0 One of my favorite quotes is one attributed to Winston Churchill in which he reportedly complains about the removal (editing) of prepositions from the ends of sentences he'd written:02br
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01i00This is the sort of English 05100. 05002i010id1231hrefhttp://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.htmlcup with which I will not put

SoKenfused · Answer

0 Thank you. 02br
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00Has there been a similar confusion using "me and I". It seems as though the rules I learned in school are not what is in practice in current speech.02br
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00Thought you might enjoy this.02br
00Professionals are predictable but the world is full of dangerous amateurs0-

Yoong Liat · Answer

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01cite10SoKenfused12cite10Thank you. 12br
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10Has there been a similar confusion using "me and I". It seems as though the rules I learned in school are not what is in practice in current speech.12br
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10Are you thinking of sentences like the following?02br
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01i00My mother and me went to the market.02i02br
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00It should be 01i00My mother and I went to the market.02i02br
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01i00My father loves my brother and I very much.02i02br
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00It should be01i00 My father loves my brother and me very much.02i0-

Bokeh · Answer

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01cite10Anonymous12cite10someone taught me that you cannot end a sentence with a prepostion12blockquote

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01cite10SoKenfused12cite10Has there been a similar confusion using "me and I".12blockquote

10I guess these old fashioned views stem from the time when the highly educated studied Latin and any construction that didn't comply with the rules of Latin was considered wrong.02br
00For example it used to be argued that "He is tall than I"; not any more though fortunately.0-

BarbaraPA · Answer

0Well, I don't know what you were taught about "me" and "I." The rule you should use is to remove the "other person" from the sentence and use the pronoun that works when used by itself. That rule is completely valid.02br
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00However, so many people are afraid of the word "me" (because they have been corrected too many times for incorrect use, like "Jim and me went to a movie" and now think it's just never okay) that they use "myself" or "I" when "me" 01i00is02i00 the right word.0-

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