On 7/12/05, Daniel Jarboe <daniel.jarboe@gmail.com> wrote:
> While generally true on the history,
>
> 1) Not ending a sentence in a preposition has become the rule... not that
> you personally have to agree with it anymore than you agree with the
> commonly held definition of hacker or pirate or anything else these days.
>
> 2) "With" as it is used in that quote is an adverb (modifying the verb up),
> which is why it sounds so rediculous when reordered as if it were used as a
> preposition.
>
> ~ Daniel
Wow! reading that thread took me 2 minutes that I will never get
back, but thanks for the grammar lesson :P
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