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Never end a sentence with a preposition, because it will cause irritable syntax syndrome.

  • "Winston Churchill's rejoinder beloved by all who hate learning silly rules: 'This is the sort of English up with which I will not put' (St. Martin's Press, 1997, p. 55)."


  • "even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions."


  • "At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have tried to get us out from under."


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