We are getting 'way off topic here, but I can't resist adding a similarly constructed sentence I learned from a professor who taught English Writing courses at Pomona College. He sets the scene with two boys walking through a cemetery on a dark night, naturally afraid what would suddenly materialize to scare them. One boy looks down the path and observes a large bush. He observes, "That's a good bush to be jumped out from behind of at!"
Prof. Weismiller -- like most good writers -- scorned the rule that forbids ending a sentence with a preposition. The rule is an artifact of Latin, which contributes barely more than half the vocabulary of the English language and less of its grammatical structure. I have been a journalist (ten years with Wall Street Journal) and a professional writer for almost half a century. I have never gone out of my way to rewrite a sentence so that it does not end in a preposition, and I have never had an editor perform such unnecessary surgery on my prose. The best rule is a simple one: if it sounds natural, use it! 73, Lew K6LMP On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:30 PM, David Honey wrote: > I remember hearing Stephen Fry in a radio show talk about > prepositions at the end of sentences. He mentioned a competition to > find the most used in a sentence. The winner was a line about someone > reading a book about Australia and bringing it upstairs: "What did > you bring that book about down under up for?" > :-) > > vy 73 > David M0DHO > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
