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Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

From:Fabian <rhialto@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 10:32
> 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.
This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.