Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 16, 2001, 7:51 |
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>However, prepositions are prepositions in English. For instance, in that
>sentence "Where do you come from?", it should read "From where do you
>come?"--we just don't talk that way much anymore.
The fact remains, though, that I, as a Native Australian English speaker do
not say 'From where do you come?', except to illustrate that point.
Therefore, the preposition correctly placed at the end of the sentence
>Remember how teachers always said never to end a sentence with a
>preposition?
Actually, they never did that to me. In schools in at least Victoria, the
teaching of grammar isn't very common. Punctuation etc. yes, but not
grammar. Instead, they teach us useless things like rhyming slang (dog's
eye=meat pie), which no-one ever uses, except when being taught about it.
>[Snipping stuff about the two preposition 'classes']
This'd be like 'to give up'?
I am giving writing up.
I gave up writing.
I am a giver-uperrer.
Tristan
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