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There’s no necessity to ban prepositions from the end of sentences. Ending a sentence with a preposition is a perfectly natural part of the structure of modern English. The only time you may wish to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition is when the verb is so far back that its relationship with the preposition becomes unclear.
Nov 9, 2012 · You say using is at the end of sentence is lazy and not satisfying gramatically; I say the opposite is being redundant and repeating the priorly occurring expression over and again needlessly while not adding any value, and being repetitive. –
Nov 19, 2015 · I is the correct answer. It is actually very easy. To decide, all you do is place, "am" at the end to know. AM is implied. You would not say, "me am", therefore I is correct. Similarly, if the sentence was, "She knows better than I (do)." Do is implied. Another example; "He has the same notebook as I (have)." Have is implied.
May 20, 2017 · Sometimes, we need to end sentences with "is" or "are" to avoid repetition, but is it correct in formal language? For example: Only error-free documents are taken seriously. I will make sure yo...
Jan 10, 2011 · Prior to the invention of the Linotype, typographers would follow the abbreviation with a period and narrow space if it occurred mid-sentence, or with a period and wide space if it appeared at the end, thus avoiding ambiguity except in the case where the period was the last thing on the line (an occurrence which people hand-setting type would try to avoid mid-paragraph whether the period ...
16. The difference between the who / whom debate and the preposition-ending debate is that the former has its root in a long tradition of English grammar, while the latter arose from the editorial labours of an extremely picky generation of classicists. The use of who / whom as distinct subject/object pronouns (like thou / thee) has largely ...
They will always regret doing this. after the verb (if the verb is "to be"). Example: He is often late for work. some frequency adverbs (eg usually, normally, often, frequently, sometimes): in the beginning OR in the end of the sentence. Examples: He writes often.
It's perfectly fine to end a sentence with a preposition, don't believe any fear-mongering to make you believe otherwise. Sometimes it may sound awkward, sometimes it's more suitable for informal writing, but there is no prohibition against it. Having to read comics about grammar jokes, I guess that's something I could live with.
I appreciate this answer because I learned something new from it, but I question whether the discussion of weak and strong forms is applicable to using "it's" at the end of a sentence. The premise of the answer is that "it is" at the end of the sentence has a stranded object, but the use of "it is" in the example has meaning precisely because it does *not have an object.
1. asked Jan 25, 2013 at 14:57. phillyfelipe. 21 1 1 2. If you can't end a sentence with with, then those sentences are wrong. They aren't wrong, so you can end a sentence with with. Simply asking for a list of as many valid sentences as people can think of is not constructive, though. – Andrew Leach ♦. Jan 25, 2013 at 15:03.
