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To: traderrob6
You can end a sentence with a preposition, if that is what you are referring to. (or, if that is to what you are referring).

And especially in ordinary conversation.

320 posted on 08/17/2007 1:32:26 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

I am not an English major so I am by no means an expert, however, basic grammar tenets generally hold that “one should not end a sentence with a preposition when one has a graceful alternative.”

“For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of.” could have easily been stated this way: For the time being, the only violation of special relativity that I know of is this. or For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity of which I am aware.


347 posted on 08/17/2007 8:08:29 AM PDT by traderrob6
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