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Originally posted by cmccuist
[B]Parents do have a lot to do with how we communicate and the level of education that we aspire TO (don't end a sentence with a preposition).
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That's never a rule I've really made sense of. Or ... I've always had a hard time making sense of that rule. I mean, come on, what's wrong with the occasional preposition-terminator? Or a dangling participle? What's the harm?! Where's the outrage!?
So there's this young student, right, and he's just arrived for Freshman year at Oxford. He's lost, so he stops and asks a professor for direcions: "Hey, do you know where the cafeteria is at?"
The professor glares at the new Freshman and announces proudly and with perfect diction, "Young man, at Oxford we do not end our sentences with prepositions."
The student responds, "Ok ... do you know where the cafeteria is at, *********?"