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as usual.
geez
what are you looking for? A reward? Here's one.............
excellent
Actually this 'rule' has had a shaky history for centuries.
The latest definitions of this rule;
"A Pointless Worry (2002)
We also have evidence that the postponed preposition was, in fact, a regular feature in some constructions in Old English. No feature of the language can be more firmly rooted than if it survives from Old English. . . . The preposition at the end has always been an idiomatic feature of English. It would be pointless to worry about the few who believe it is a mistake.
(Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage, 2002)"
"An Antiquated Superstition (2004)
Contrary to popular belief, it is not a mortal sin to end a sentence with a preposition, as long as the sentence sounds natural and its meaning is clear. . . . It is absolutely antiquated to forbid ending a sentence with a preposition.
(Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas, The Grammar Bible, Henry Holt and Company, 2004)'
http://grammar.about.com/od/grammarfaq/f/terminalprepositionmyth.htm
I am in no way belittling the OP or you but this is where the current ruling is at.
Scan everything for mistakes and if you find a misplaced comma or a word dismiss the whole thing...that will show them.
geez another deflector distraction.
about grammar. Talk about distraction....
thank you for kicking my thread.
My heart to you and yours.
why Patrick Lynch and the police union are having shit-fits about Mayor deBlasio:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/21/the-ny-police-union-s-vile-war-with-mayor-de-blasio.html
(snip)
On Dec. 3, in the wake of the Staten Island grand jury’s refusal to indict in the case of the police homicide of Eric Garner, de Blasio gave a press conference at a Staten Island church. He spoke of the need to heal and so on, the usual politician’s rhetoric, and then he uttered these words:
This is profoundly personal for me. I was at the White House the other day, and the president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a teenager. And he said, I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens. I said to him I did. Because Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years, about the dangers he may face. A good young man, a law-abiding young man, who would never think to do anything wrong, and yet, because of a history that still hangs over us, the dangers he may face—we’ve had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.
Dante de Blasio, as you surely know, is a mixed-race young man of 16 who looks black and sports a large, ’70s-style afro. Does anyone seriously think that his father should not have told him what he did? Come on. We all know the odds (actually, we don’t, more on which later). We hear every prominent black man in America who has a son and who decides to talk about this publicly—football players and actors and others—say exactly the same thing. We’ve heard it hundreds of times. Are these men lying? Are they paranoid weirdos? Of course they aren’t. They are fathers, describing to the rest of us what I thought was a widely acknowledged reality
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In other words, certain people among the NYPD are ragging on Mayor deBlasio for teaching his son to be street-wise and be careful out there.
But hell - Patrick Lynch is as dumb as he looks. No cure for his case of stupid.
No matter how nice they are (yes I have them in my family, I do), the moment they put on that uniform that's what they become. You have to be an AUTHORITARIAN to take the job.
There are degrees of assholery, of course just like anything else in life. But all cops believe in ''hierarchical control-systems.'' Which makes sense, because so do the slaves (people) who inhabit this planet. It's all they know. It's what we're taught from the beginning.
There will always be someone there in their lives, to tell them what to do.
- That is what is in question now.
And soon we'll have the answer.......
K&R
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