Ah, the grammar “purists” who pretend that English is a highly cultured and refined language derived from Latin, ignoring its actual ignoble roots as Anglo-Saxon. a Germanic language. Word order? Mein Gott!!!
Did you hear the one about the prostitute who was being granted full parole, but had it revoked when she made the judge a standing offer? Never end a sentence with a proposition.
BE THIS GUY about 4 years ago
What are we fighting for?
Ib12us about 4 years ago
Would have been faster to have just written, “All quiet on the Western Front.” She writes to much. And who ate the carrier pigeon?
pauljmsn about 4 years ago
The whole “never end a sentence with a proposition” thing is a lot of nonsense up with which I will not put.
NathandeGargoyle about 4 years ago
Civilised
tudza Premium Member about 4 years ago
Indeed, there are some things up with which we will not put.
The Old Wolf about 4 years ago
What did you bring that book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?
Sephten about 4 years ago
But she’s all right (TWO words!) with a split infinitive?
JimValTen Premium Member about 4 years ago
Now that’s the way to teach comp!
aerotica69 about 4 years ago
I just hope that when this battle is over, her troops have the intestinal stamina to take on “Latinx”.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Ah, the grammar “purists” who pretend that English is a highly cultured and refined language derived from Latin, ignoring its actual ignoble roots as Anglo-Saxon. a Germanic language. Word order? Mein Gott!!!
panille about 4 years ago
Did you hear the one about the prostitute who was being granted full parole, but had it revoked when she made the judge a standing offer? Never end a sentence with a proposition.
Don Hulbert Premium Member about 4 years ago
Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I will not put!
anomalous4 about 4 years ago
That is a level of pedantry up with which we will not put!
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 4 years ago
C. S. Lewis called such a fake “rule” of English a “Frenchified schoolroom superstition”.
The Old Wolf about 4 years ago
Has Her Majesty never told anyone to “Shut up?”
DCBakerEsq about 4 years ago
I thought we had banned “civil war” and “rebels.” And, “white monarchs.”
kathybear about 4 years ago
But she ended her sentence with a preposition.