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“I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.”

Thinking Ends Fine Sentences Fine Things Prepositions

Author:William Zinsser

“Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'”

Want Made Book Picks Grammar Versatile Prepositions

Author:Winston Churchill

“The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.”

Littles Together Language Sentences Graves Phrases Modest Evident Misunderstanding Joints Breakdown Adjectives Misuse Nouns Prepositions

Book:Occasional prose

Source: Occasional prose

“The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.”

“If is a very big preposition.”

Ifs Bigs Prepositions

Author:John Major

“All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.”

Language Class Speech Nine Divided Articles English Language Verbs Adjectives Nouns Conjunctions Pronouns Adverbs Prepositions Parts Of Speech

Book:How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

“Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.”

Thinking Action Together Stronger Verbs Adjectives Stronger Together Prepositions

Author:Mark Shields

“This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

Type Pedants Pedantry Prepositions

Author:Winston Churchill

“Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.”

Ends Use Natural Sentences Prepositions

Book:The King's English

Source: The King's English

“A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!”

Ends Sentences Prepositions

Author:Berton Braley

“If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.”

Ifs Kind May Doe Facts Stories Seems Speak Animal Behinds Fiction Wonder Particular Reader Picks Curiosity Love Story Narrative Impulse Autobiography One Love Prepositions

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"”

People Men Should Said Ends Fronts Sentences Strikes Yankees Umpires Batting Dummy Prepositions

Author:George Will

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?”

Son Holy Died Ill Ghost Greek Latin Formulas Scholar Holy Ghost Unkind Proceeding Patriarch Prepositions

Author:Steven Runciman