Hi Kneel, I wish my English teacher had your sense of humor.:} Thanks for the grin. Barbara in MA On 5/8/2015 1:06 PM, nhofland via wrote: > Hi All, > > A child is sick with a minor illness. He wants his mother to read to him > from a favorite book. He asks her to go downstairs, get the book, bring > it up, and read to him. She comes back with the wrong book and starts > reading. The child says, "Why did you bring a book I didn't want to be > read from out of up for?". > > Perhaps we should discuss the "for?"."., or maybe it should be > "for?"."?."? > > Kneel, who also taught English in the distant past. > > On Thu, 7 May 2015 17:03:17 -0700 Doris Waggoner via > <norway@rootsweb.com> writes: >> John, >> >> Old-style English teachers used to tell us we could not end a >> sentence in a >> preposition. That's not something that's so rigidly adhered to these >> days, >> especially in informal communication like an email. If the sentence >> flows >> and makes sense, go for it! >> >> The rule originally came from Latin, where the preposition and the >> word it >> was attached to were physically connected as part of the same word. >> In >> other words, it was impossible to "disconnect" them. In English, >> prepositions and the words they connect to are two separate words, >> so the >> rule makes a lot less sense. >> >> So as a former English teacher, I'd say, don't worry about the >> rule! >> >> Doris >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:56 PM, John Ferman via >> <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >>> Back in 2004 someone from Norway sent me a census reference of >>> http://snipurl.com/8tzw. Of course, URLs have changed a great deal >> since >>> then. Anyone recognize to what the reference was to. Pardon for >> ending a >>> sentence in a prepositio. >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> John Ferman >>> Minneapolis, MN >>> >>> >>> Norwaylist Archiveshttp:// >>> archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway >>> >>> RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB >>> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html >>> >>> guidelines >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> Norwaylist >> Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway >> >> RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html >> >> guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ____________________________________________________________ > High School Yearbooks > View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Reminisce & Buy a Reprint Today! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/554ced381d6146d373420st04vuc > Norwaylist Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >