Timeline for Ending a sentence with a preposition
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| Mar 12, 2015 at 19:07 | history | edited | Stéphane Gimenez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2015 at 12:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackFrench/status/574180530935218176 | ||
| Mar 6, 2015 at 21:23 | comment | added | Papa Poule | Perhaps the most glaring examples of dangling (or at least superfluous) preposition "offenses" in English involve ending “Where” questions with an unnecessary “at” or “to”: “Where are you going [to]?” “Where are you [at]?” (“Between the “A” & the “T” is the standard pedantic answer to that question). Although not involving prepositions, it’s my understanding that similar “offense” is taken by some (overly?) sensitive French grammarians when they encounter, especially in formal writing, certain questions ending with “comment” or “d'où”: “Tu t’appelles comment?”/“Tu viens d'où?” | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 19:19 | answer | added | Circeus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 10:24 | answer | added | Un francophone | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 1:25 | comment | added | Romain Valeri | Interesting question, but with a misleading title actually. The preposition must end a nominal group in your examples, in sentences like The chair which he sat on ... [is broken/magic/whatever]. But the title says 'Ending a sentence...' When reading the title I thought about the sentence Si vous n'avez pas d'argent, venez sans ! | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | servabat | Impossible de ne pas penser au Bourgeois Gentilhomme de Molière en lisant cette question! :) | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 23:04 | answer | added | Micromégas | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 22:21 | history | asked | user3476093 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |