[net.nlang] Prepositions, Ending Sentences with

swatt (12/07/82)

How about:

	Why did you bring that book for me to be read to out of up for?

tombl (12/08/82)

But can you end a sentence with "and" (without the quotes)?

olmstead (12/09/82)

Why for did you include the word 'for' at the end of your sentence for?

thomas (12/13/82)

This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

-- Winston Churchill

halle1 (12/14/82)

Don't libel WC.  He correctly used shall, not will.  (To all you
grammarians out there, yes I do know when "I will" is correct.)

rick (12/16/82)

The correct quote is:

    "This is the sort of errant pedantry up with which I will not put"

				Sir Winston Churchill

woods (12/17/82)

  One of my favorite sentences (which ends with %d prepositions):

  What did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?

gary (12/21/82)

This may not be syntactically correct, but someone was looking for a sentence
ending in "and" and I found myself saying this today:

 Dryden? It's where Tweitman's Halfway House is halfway between Ithaca and.

leichter (12/23/82)

The best sentence with many terminal prepositions is a varient of one
that has already been mentioned.  Imagine that someone has just returned
from Australia with a book to read to you from.  [sic]  It's the wrong
book.  You say:

	Why did you bring me the book that a don't want to be read
		to out of up from Down Under for?

Eight prepositions!  (OK, so it cheats a bit...)
						-- Jerry
					decvax!yale-comix!leichter

dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (12/01/83)

You mean:
	What did you bring that book I wanted to be read
	to out of about Down Under up for?


Dave Sherman
-- 
 {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave