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6 Grammar Rules You Can Break
“Don’t end a sentence with a preposition” is one of English grammar’s most infamous rules—but it turns out you don’t actually have to follow it. On this latest episode of The List ...
Where did these phony rules originate ... ending a sentence with a preposition in his 1762 book, A Short Introduction to English Grammar; while Henry Alford, a dean of Canterbury Cathedral ...