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Old 23-December-2007, 06:55 AM
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Default Re: White men did it

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Originally Posted by stutefish View Post
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Originally Posted by Maksutov
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.
Shouldn't that be, "the sentence about which we were talking?"
I threw that in there to see if someone would pick up on an example of what was being complained about (e.g.).

Bingo!

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