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DaveJ

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16. I have trouble with rule #2

Reply to HarveyDarkey (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2012, 02:39 PM

May 2012

Some sentences just naturally want to end with prepositions.

Like, "Who did you go to Prom with?" Nobody says "With whom did you go to the Prom?" That rule needs modification, IMO.

Great list!

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How to write good [View all] HarveyDarkey May 2012 OP

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #1

Alternatively, "This is the sort of bloody nonsense which I will not put up with, asshole." yellowcanine May 2012 #9

my fave. ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #22

"This the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put." longship May 2012 #13

Rules To Live By, Sir The Magistrate May 2012 #2

Great rules, and 23 words I'm going to have to look up and study. nt DCKit May 2012 #32

I am familiar with all those rules after being a copy editor 13 years RebelOne May 2012 #3

as though they were on steroids, eh? ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #24

Sounds like you're training to write instruction manuals. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #4

Don't you mean "How to write well"? badtoworse May 2012 #5

That is the joke. Every sentence is off from it's own rule. nt ZombieHorde May 2012 #11

Useless. I swear every one of those lines breaks its own rule. onehandle May 2012 #6

WTF!?!? (WTF!?1?)! ellisonz May 2012 #7

Thank you zappaman May 2012 #8

or better yet HarveyDarkey May 2012 #12

wait Kalidurga May 2012 #15

That is incorrect. You write good "G-O-O-D" Liberal Veteran May 2012 #10

So where is the list of rule's? Its missing. n/t BadgerKid May 2012 #14

Rule couldn't make it. We have the list of HarveyDarkey's. nolabear May 2012 #26

I have trouble with rule #2 DaveJ May 2012 #16

That's the bestest cloudbase May 2012 #17

Its most perfect. n/t sarge43 May 2012 #23

24. Numbers are not a suitable replacement for words or letters... Riftaxe May 2012 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Jello Biafra May 2012 #19

Fuck profanity! Jamaal510 May 2012 #20

points for style -- not so much for substance fishwax May 2012 #21

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2012 #25

LOL mmonk May 2012 #27

Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice. Scuba May 2012 #28

Eschew obfuscation! n/t Mister Ed May 2012 #30

Your subject line Control-Z May 2012 #29

My favorite prepositional phrase story. ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2012 #31

Well, I'll just have to throw away my Catcher in the Rye then. lunatica May 2012 #33

They forgot "Make sure that you don't any words out." Towlie May 2012 #34

Nah -- Superman does 'good'; you're doing 'well'. You need to study your grammar, son... Blue_Tires May 2012 #35