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Ah yes. I had a momentary lapse of judgment and forgot how very very serious life is. Point taken. I'll also tell her to stop calling me a dumb ### because life is very serious.
You're not from 'round here are ya boy? You best be keeping yaself quiet if ya know what's good fer ya.
Yep. Perfectly acceptable in the Hoosier language. That doesn't mean it's grammatically correct though.
We always taunted the English teachers & editors etc in the family with "A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with."
I believe that in formal writing it is still frowned upon. There are better words to end sentences with. If you end a sentence with a preposition around a true grammar snob, you'll hear about it after.
Well, Latin is where it came from. Because English is a relatively new language, rather than intrinsically building grammar from within, much of it comes from without. Because "preposition" translates literally to "before place" the object noun in the sentence is expected to come after. We have just kept it ever since.
It's also a good way to help avoid passive writing. If you read everything I typed above on this page, it feels unfinished and lacks real punch. Like a Philip Glass composition, it's just dissonant in the reading. That's solely because the sentence structure was put together to place the preposition at the end of every sentence.
