A sad feeling...
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Robatoy wrote:
In article ,
Mr. Moose wrote:
Now I will go play with my son and figure out what type of lathe to
replace my dead one with.
Strunk & White are rolling over in their graves.
Their booklet, The Elements Of Style, is an invaluable companion to
anybody trying to communicate in English.
Now I will go play with my son. Then I am going to try to figure out
with which type of lathe I am going to replace my dead one.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with
which I will not put.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
The chairperson of the Department of Nits rears its head and states:
The correct quotation is:
Sir Winston Churchill, upon being chastised for ending a sentence
with a proposition: "That, Madam, is a piece of pedantry up with
which I will not put."
Then, however, there is the young child, in the 2nsd-floor bedroom,
questioning Daddy's choice, from the bookshelves downstairs, of
bed-time story book:
"Why did you bring _that_ book for me to be to be read to out
of up from for?"
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