Stephan Pastis offers some grammatical advice to start the dating new year in the right fashion. (Click the image to be taken to a full-size version at the comic's Web page.)
I can hear my old middle-school English teacher chuckling fiendishly at that one . . .
Peter
4 comments:
I seem to recall that "Never end a sentence with a preposition" comes from FOWLERS DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, and that Fowler had a number of bees in his bonnet, of which this was one.
And I seem to recall that "Never end a sentence with a preposition" dates back to Latin sentence structure and does not apply to English at all.
"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill
This seems appropriate here.
"Preposition", "proposition"!
I finally got it! (...I know. I'm slow.)
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