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Gene93 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

What year/date was .....signed in/on?

Hello,
I heard that ending a sentence with a preposition was incorrect. Is that so? What is wrong with:
- What date was the declaration of.....signed on?
- What year did they.....in?
I realize that some people would leave in/on out, but I think there's nothing wrong with keeping them in.

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Gene93 I heard that ending a sentence with a preposition was incorrect. Is that so? ” Seriously, it is fine and common in informal English to end with prepositions.

— Mister Micawber

  • Gene93 I heard that ending a sentence with a preposition was incorrect.
  • Is that so?
  • ” Seriously, it is fine and common in informal English to end with prepositions.
  • In some formal writing, we like to avoid it if easily done or even if more clear, as in: This is the journal in which the article appears.
  • vs This is the journal the article appears in.
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Gene93I heard that ending a sentence with a preposition was incorrect. Is that so?
No, not at all: A little girl asked her father to read her a bedtime story, but when he came back upstairs with the wrong book she said, “What did you bring that book I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”

Seriously, it is fine and common in informal English
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Thank you. Yes, I assume that "On what date/In what year was .....signed?" would be better in writing.
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Gene93- What date was the declaration of.....signed on?- What year did they.....in?
There used to be an old rule against ending a sentence with a preposition. Today it isn't really enforced.

One way to avoid the problem is to choose a different beginning:

When was the declaration of .... signed?
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I don't see it as a problem to avoid.
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fivejedjonI don't see it as a problem to avoid.
I've run into people who delight in pointing out every split infinitive and dangling preposition.

(like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory (USA TV): Final Preposition,
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SoSaysSunnySometimes it's just easier to avoid the issue. ~ sigh
Or minimize it. There are plenty of other things learners need to work on in order to become intelligible in English.
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