Quotes About Preposition

Never end a sentence with a preposition, Sobel. You don't wanna say, 'gave the plumbers new grounds to bargain on.' You wanna say, 'gave the plumbers new grounds on which to bargain.

Than is both a conjunction and a preposition; it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Or we reference Winston Churchill, who was famously reported to have written "This is the kind of tedious/arrant nonsense up with which I will not put," in response to an overweening staffer having removed a preposition from some of his writing. (However, as with many quotes that are purported to have originated with the former prime minister of Great Britain, the author was someone other than Churchill).*

This is where we get the absurd rule that one must never, ever, end a sentence with a preposition. As Winston Churchill put it, "That's the sort of nonsense up with which we shall not put.

Excuse me, where is the library at? - At Harward we don't end the sentence with preposition - Excuse me, where is the library at, jerk!?

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

The preposition into means "to in," namely, "to an interior portion of "; onto stands for "to on"; with stands for "a means of changing something.

It is the work of the Holy Spirit, in either course, to bring Jesus Christ into human lives. "Into" is the key preposition for the work of the Spirit.

We do have to be on guard these days or we're likely to get swatted by a belligerent pronoun or hit with a preposition we didn't see coming. These are perilous times for the English language, in case you hadn't noticed.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.