re: #332 ConservatismNow!

“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Has someone already quoted old Winston yet?

It’s a joke, but one CAN end a sentence with a prepositions AS LONG AS its object is somewhere in the sentence. For example:

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something I will not put up with.

is perfectly correct because the relative pronoun “that” is implied (before the adjective clause beginning with “I”) and THAT is the object of the preposition.