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Tuurngeist9
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 2:00:21 AM EST (GMT-5)
language is meant to communicate.. not to get all fuxked up peoples axses about how they use it. i dont understand why people have to be so annoying about it all the time.
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 2:49:07 AM EST (GMT-5)
Language is also a thing of beauty.
When used correctly, it conveys so much more than the simple message contained in the words.
Most of us on YT have English as our mother tongue. We are fortunate that we do. It is a language of depth and beauty and poetry. If only we use it properly.
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 3:01:25 AM EST (GMT-5)
it's obvious that occasionally ending sentences with prepositions is the best way to say something and that occasionally it isn't. rules are meant to be broken, after all
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 3:48:04 AM EST (GMT-5)
I will not put up with ending sentences with a preposition.
You can avoid plenty of grammatical errors by leaving out unnecessary words. That said, there is something to be said for breaking rules and infusing individual style. It's not often these days that by-the-book grammar is imperative, y'know?
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Flores
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 4:06:13 AM EST (GMT-5)
I end mine with punctuation.
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bloomsbury
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8 months ago - Wednesday 8/22/12 - 9:14:05 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 8/22/12 - 2:49:07 AM DaveW wrote:
Language is also a thing of beauty. When used correctly, it conveys so much more than the simple message contained in the words. Most of us on YT have English as our mother tongue. We are fortunate that we do. It is a language of depth and beauty and poetry. If only we use it properly. |
Do you think not ending sentences with prepositions makes English more beautiful?
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7 months ago - Monday 9/24/12 - 9:35:18 PM EST (GMT-5)
It's still not OK. Just because you gave a terrible (and I mean really bad) example of a "correct" sentence doesn't deter me from my stance.
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7 months ago - Monday 9/24/12 - 9:38:44 PM EST (GMT-5)
Yes at.
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aldod
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7 months ago - Tuesday 9/25/12 - 12:14:50 AM EST (GMT-5)
No, but I have no objection to ending a sentence with the separable prefix of a verb that uses separable prefixes. Even several in succession are acceptable, as when my son, many years ago, interrupted his bedtime story with "What did you bring this book to read out of in for?"
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7 months ago - Tuesday 9/25/12 - 1:44:26 AM EST (GMT-5)
Only in places where improper grammar is acceptable.
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7 months ago - Tuesday 9/25/12 - 1:50:08 AM EST (GMT-5)
I say whatever I say in the way I think sounds best
I don't pay attention to any rules
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7 months ago - Tuesday 9/25/12 - 2:18:20 AM EST (GMT-5)
Problem sentence:
"Ending sentences with a preposition is not something I am going to put up with"
Two solutions.
A. Longer:
"Ending sentences with a preposition is not something I am going to put up with, f*cknut"
B. Shorter:
I am not going to put up with ending sentences with prepositions.
(though I guess technically that still ends with a preposition!)
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Sal1981
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28 days ago - Saturday 4/20/13 - 5:13:11 AM EST (GMT-5)
I fail to see the problem with ending in a proposition, but I'm not a native English speaker.
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28 days ago - Saturday 4/20/13 - 5:15:26 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 9/25/12 - 1:50:08 AM Disappears wrote:
I say whatever I say in the way I think sounds best I don't pay attention to any rules |
what sounds best is controlled by lots of social 'rules' 
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