Re: White men did it
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Originally Posted by stutefish
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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. 
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Shouldn't that be, "the sentence about which we were talking?" 
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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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