Final prepositions again
Language Log 2025-11-17
Summary:
In "Prepositionssss…" (9/2/2011), we quoted from the 1995 Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, Members of the never-end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition school are still with us and are not reluctant to make themselves known… This follows M-W's note that …recent commentators — at least since Fowler 1926 — are unanimous in their rejection of the notion that ending a sentence […]