Timeline for Usage of Prepositions with Question Words
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| Dec 28, 2017 at 6:29 | vote | accept | Memduh | ||
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| Jul 12, 2017 at 22:28 | comment | added | Kace36 | Regarding Winston Churchill and a famous quote: After an overzealous editor attempted to rearrange one of Winston Churchill's sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, the Prime Minister scribbled a single sentence in reply: "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.". It was done and said to show how ridiculous it is try to avoid a preposition at the end of the sentence. See how bad the meaning becomes and loses its context completely? He wants to say instead: "....sort of bloody nonsense which I will not put up with". | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 22:23 | comment | added | Kace36 | @marcellothearcane Totally agree. Do not make the mistake of not ending with a preposition simply because of some (also) archaic rule that prepositions cannot be at the end of sentences. If it helps the meaning then you absolutely can use one. #1 is correct. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | marcellothearcane | I don't think 2 is okay, 3 is archaic. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 20:44 | comment | added | amI | The root question is "That key is for what?" (1) fronts the query pronoun (and an auxiliary verb), which is normal. (3) fronts the pronoun along with its preposition, which is clumsy. (2) fronts the pronoun twice {first like (3), then like (1)} which is not allowed {the meaning is not what was intended}. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 19:54 | comment | added | John Lawler | You can pied-pipe a preposition with a Wh-word as in (3), but it's awkward and more complex than (1), so it would be avoided. (2) is right out, because what for?, by itself, is a synonym for why?, and you can't say *Why is that key? | |
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