Last word on ending a sentence with a preopsition by Morris Bishop

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I searched for threads on this subject and there were too many to sort through finding out if this had been posted before.

I just came across this gem by Morris Bishop, and for those unfamiliar with it, here it is for your enjoyment:

I lost a naughty preposition,
He lived, I think, beneath my chair.
I cried aloud to him, Perdition!
Come on up out from down under there."

Now, language is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wonder, what should he come
On up out from down under for?

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Oooh, did you hear that thud? That was Mrs. Brand stroking out.

:smiley:

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Heh heh heh.

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It’s a nice line, but are all those words being used as prepositions?

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What’s a preopsition?
:smiley:

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Not sure about preopsition, but a preposition is a word you shouldn’t end a sentence with.

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Everyone has probably heard this one, but what the hell, it’s fun.

A country boy applies to Harvard and gets in. On his first day there, he gets disoriented and asks a student, “Excuse me, could you tell me where the library’s at?” The student gets rather huffy and condescendingly says, “Sir, here at Harvard we do not end a sentence with a preposition!”

So the country boy responds,

“Oh, I’m so sorry! Where’s the library at, asshole?”

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And something up with which I will not put.

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In our childhood my brother was quite the grammar Nazi.

Once, at dinner he asked for “a fork to eat his crab with”.

I asked him what “crab with” was.

To this day he has never lived this down. It even came up during at the last Thanksgiving get together.

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I laughed.