232: Prepositions at the End Jul 28, 2015
The tradition that a preposition should not end a sentence goes
grammarians in the 18th century believed English ought to bend to the
rules of Latin grammar, not because it dramatically affected the
interpretation of the sentence. And although it usually makes as much
sense to end a sentence with a preposition as it does to eat an
appetizer, not before, but after the entree, similar to the effect of
the passive voice, sometimes the speaker desires to emphasize the object
of the preposition.
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