tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post3057013824460122639..comments2024-03-27T19:11:37.620-04:00Comments on You Don't Say: End a sentence with a preposition if you want to John McIntyrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559687583130468871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-42020687710618333992022-08-10T13:50:31.088-04:002022-08-10T13:50:31.088-04:00Ordered!Ordered!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-50136478383232384712022-08-10T12:35:13.679-04:002022-08-10T12:35:13.679-04:00Yabbut, not ending a sentence with a preposition i...Yabbut, not ending a sentence with a preposition is a zombie rule. No plausible authority since Fowler has advocated for it. This in turn gives cover to people like Garner. They can take what is in fact the century-old standard stance and position it as showing how oh, so reasonable they are, the implication being that when they denounce some usage, this denunciation clearly also is oh, so reasonable. <br /><br />This is weak tea. Show me the stronger stuff. A few years ago I would have suggested sentence adverb "hopefully," but that argument has a dated feel to it nowadays. More current is the purported distinction between relative pronouns "which" and "that."Richard Hershbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02635892502928435073noreply@blogger.com