"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > Maildir format might be found at qmail but I really don't know. Perhaps > > there is info there on how to do this, it seems to be something people > > would be in need of - I mean - something for which there is a need. > > Why on earth shouldn't a sentence end with a preposition? > > I have at least one style guide that says it is perfectly fine to end a > sentence with a preposition. It can be confusing in some contexts, > though. Hence the "rule". You do have a run-on sentence there. But > that's a different matter. > With respect to the "preposition", I think the proper term in this case is "enclitic". It is really part of the verb. So it is ok to say:
That is something I won't put up with. Instead of: That is something up with which I will not put. To mildly misquote Winston Churchill. Cam