Monday, January 6, 2020

A grammatical relationship?


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:

C. S. P. Schofield said...

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.

Sherm said...

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

wheels said...

This seems appropriate here.

Roy said...

"Preposition", "proposition"!

I finally got it! (...I know. I'm slow.)