Prepositions

Back in the 1800s, a bunch of misguided "scholars" decided that Latin was the language of scholars, and that poor old Germanic-based English should act more like Latin, so they invented a bunch of really stupid "rules" like "never end a sentence with a preposition."

We are now in an enlightened age and realize these "rule" were balderdash and you should ignore them.

Exception:

I agree that such a rule should be ignored in most situations of everyday English, and that there are also cases where following such a rule would create strained or unnatural English. However, I personally feel that putting the preposition at the end can impart an informal feel that may not always be appropriate in formal writing. In those situations I prefer to move the preposition foward, where

GPYHowever, I personally feel that putting the preposition at the end can impart an informal feel that may not always be appropriate in formal writing. In those situations I prefer to move the preposition foward, where it is feasible to do so.

I can live with that.

BarbaraPAstupid "rules" like "never end a sentence with a preposition."

Well put. I'm still sometimes tempted to wonder if they didn't mean proposition.
One letter can really make a difference. Ever consider if it's possible that early monks, in their transcriptions, left out an R, giving us celib_ate instead of the intention of the

Philip .I can live with that.

Or, as "they" may have you say "That's something with which you can live."

Most famously, of course, "That is a rule up with which I will not put" ...

And much less famously, Take the first left turn up to which you come.

CJ

The Naughty Preposition
Morris Bishop

I lately lost a preposition:
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: ``Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!''

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor;
And yet I wondered: ``What should he come
Up from out of in under for?''