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 . . .




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4 comments:

  1. C. S. P. SchofieldJanuary 6, 2020 at 8:56 AM

    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.

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  2. ShermJanuary 6, 2020 at 1:38 PM

    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

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  3. wheelsJanuary 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM

    This seems appropriate here.

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  4. RoyJanuary 6, 2020 at 4:12 PM

    "Preposition", "proposition"!

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

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