Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Charles wrote:
> > We never end sentences with prepositions, but with adverbs.
>
> Sure we do, our English teachers may berate us for it, but we do it
> anyways.  "What are you looking at?", for instance, "that's what I'm
> talking about" (how the heck are you supposed to adjust that, praytell?
> "that's the thing about which I'm talking"???)
Any sentence with a "wh"-word in it can/does break all the rules.
Find a declarative example ... that doesn't rely on ellipsis.