Comment | In standard American English, you aren't "supposed" to end a sentence with a preposistion, but of course it's widely done (even in official/academic sounding writing). The problem is that a lot of the time the "correct" version sounds awkward. There's a great example in the the Beavis and Butthead movie, where one of the FBI agents is trying to reformulate the sentence "we found the trailer that they were jacking off in", without ending it with a preposition. Of course jacking-off is really one word, but you get the point. So I think it's your call. There's also the old joke about Harvard (or Yale, whatever): A visitor to the Harvard campus stops a student, who is passing by, and asks him, "Can you tell me where the library is at?" To this the Harvard student snootily replies, "at Harvard we do not end sentences with prepositions." Asking again, the visitor says, "OK, can you tell me where the library is at, asshole?" |
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