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Can you end sentences with of?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Ask your teacher first, because the one truly inflexible rule in grammar is "For the purposes of getting good grades in your English class, the rules of grammar are whatever your English teacher says they are."

That said, most modern authorities regard the no-terminal-prepositions rule as archaic at best, and many of them feel it was always a rather silly and arbitrary rule. In classical Latin, the rule made a certain amount of sense, but in English... not so much.

Winston Churchill is reputed to have said, upon being criticized for ending a sentence with a preposition, "This is the sort of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put." Which sentence, in itself, rather illustrates the silliness of the rule.

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