Re: White men did it
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Originally Posted by Daffy
In English it is perfectly acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. The "rule" against it was invented by a minister in the 1800s because Latin does have such a rule and he thought English should as well.
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You missed my point, which was that the sentence ends with a verb, therefore any criticism re ending with a preposition wasn't applicable to that sentence we were talking about. 
Sounds like the minister decided to boldly go where no grammarian had gone before.
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