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The above commenter is both

Submitted by Guest on January 4, 2008 - 14:45.

The above commenter is both snarky and incorrect.

Most reputable sources (including The Chicago Manual of Style, perhaps the most authoritative style guide available) agree that the "rule" about not ending a sentence in a preposition is long outdated and was, in fact, never meant to be a hard-and-fast rule in the first place. It is essentially a grammatical urban legend based on an essay by John Dryden.

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Prepositions/Prepositions04....

(By the way, great article!)

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