Put it on a Plaque
He’s said it before and he’ll say it again, but might as well get it down here for posterity; Jim Vanden Bosch, weighing in on the business of ending sentences with prepositions—words to live by:
The general principle I work with is this: given the constraints of genre, audience, occasion, and purpose, I try not to let the stylistic, grammatical, and lexical choices call undue attention to themselves, unless that is the point of making that choice.
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 11/18 at 05:06 PM
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