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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:39 PM
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The ending of a sentence with a preposition is something...
...up with which we will not put! }(
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:40 PM
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1. It are?
nt
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:46 PM
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4. " Is it not "
" So anyway " the answer is Esperanto but Nooooooo everyone is too lazy.
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:43 PM
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2. Where the white women at?
Where the white women about?
Where the white women akimbo?
Where the white women around?
Where the white women askance?
Where the white women behind?
Where the white women on top of?

Just doesn't have the same cachet, does it?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:45 PM
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3. kanrok!!! How you be??????
I've missed you so much, and I was just thinking about you this morning, and PoP! here you are, just like you always do!! It's good to see you, friend! :hi: :hug:
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:52 PM
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6. Hey, Grump!
Good to see you too. I took a sabbatical after the election. I couldn't handle the results. Now I'm better. I still keep away from the political stuff, by and large. But I do like to monitor what's going on with my DU friends. Sounds like you survived the Packer season. Hope Favre doesn't call it quits. He's a class act. After what he's been through this year, even a die-hard Bear fan like me would like to see him get a shot at one more Super Bowl. Anyway, GREAT to hear from you. Hope all is well.
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:47 PM
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5. A preposition is something
you should never end a sentence with.

An infinitive is something to never split.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 06:00 PM
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7. And as for those fragmented sentences....
:hi:
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 06:11 PM
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8. My First Day on Campus...
I went up to a preppie-looking fellow and asked, 'excuse me, but could you tell me where the library is at?'

He looked down his patrician nose at me and sneered, 'even a plebeian such as yourself should know better than to end a sentence with a preposition. Ask me again properly, and I MIGHT answer your question.'

I started again, 'excuse me, but could you tell me where the library is at...asshole!?'

<this is NOT a true story>
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Ivan Sputnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 06:55 PM
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9. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, reprimanded for ending a sentence with a preposition, put it best: "This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put."
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