History Main / PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith

** Apparently this was only in the movie to satisfy the director's mother, who treated him similar to Flemmings treatment of the agent about this matter. So it's an obscure in-joke.
** Also, the sentence he was trying to say was "The guy whose trailer those two were whacking off in," and instead tries "The guy off in whose trailer those two were whacking."

--[[AuthorsOfQuote Attributed]] to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this[[hottip:*:"Up" is not a preposition in this particular case, so his sentence should have been this: "That is the kind of arrant pedantry with which I will not put up.".]].

This is actually applying Latin grammar rules to English, and while some of those can actually apply in the latter language (like no double negatives), this one doesn't (same with splitting infinitives[[hottip:*:which is actually a fair bit more complicated than it's usually made to appear - true infinitives are simply a verb conjugation(ie, one word), so they can't be split. Since English infinitives are just the verb stem these days, a lot of people conflate the ''to infinitive'' with the regular one. However, while some claim the prohibition against splitting the to infinitive comes from this confusion(usually claiming "Latin infinitives are one word[etc]"), the fact of the matter is it's just out of date - it was originally introduced back when it just wasn't done. It's also worth noting that Middle English imported a form of to infinitive splitting from Norman that allowed whole clauses between to and infinitive, but that died off pretty quickly.]]). Many sentences just don't flow in English if this rule is shoehorned in (which means ending on a preposition is bad when it breaks the flow, not this rule).

* In the movie ''With Honors'' a homeless man is attending a class at Harvard dislikes the attitude of the Professor and the Professor dislikes the homeless man. So when homeless man wants to leave, this exchange occurs:

* In the movie "''With Honors'' a homeless man attending a class at Harvard dislikes the attitude of the Professor and the Professor dislikes the homeless man. So when homeless man wants to leave, this exchange occurs:

-->Simon Wilder: Okay. Which door do I leave from, asshole?

** A ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant]]'' preposition. [[PardonMyKlingon Has'sac]].

* In one of the ''OrderOfTheStick'' comics that appeared in ''Dragon'' magazine, Vaarsuvius rages at a pair of undead who end ''every single sentence'' with a preposition. When Durkon reproaches him for acting like an uptight English teacher, Vaarsuvius replies, "[[TranslationConvention What is this English]] [[HypocriticalHumor you speak of?"]]

-->"I asked this Northern woman, 'Where are ya'll from?' And she said, 'I'm from a place where we don't end our sentences with prepositions.' So I said, 'Okay, where are ya'll from, [[{{Ptitlel9hiod7i}} bitch]]?'"

* Mentioned by English Major Yorick near the end of YTheLastMan.

--[[AuthorsOfQuote Attributed]] to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this[[hottip:*:"up" is not a preposition, so his sentence should have run: "That is the kind of arrant pedantry with which I will not put up.".]].

This is actually applying Latin grammar rules to English, and while some of those can actually apply in the latter language (like no double negatives), this one doesn't (same with splitting infinitives[[hottip:*:Which are one word in Latin, so it's not that you shouldn't split infinitives there, you simply ''can't'']]). Many sentences just don't flow in English if this rule is shoehorned in (which means ending on a preposition is bad when it breaks the flow, not this rule).

--[[AuthorsOfQuote Attributed]] to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this[[hottip:"up" is not a preposition, so his sentence should have run: "That is the kind of arrant pedantry with which I will not put up."..

--[[AuthorsOfQuote Attributed]] to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this[[hottip:*:"up" is not a preposition, so his sentence should have run: "That is the kind of arrant pedantry with which I will not put up."..

--[[AuthorsOfQuote Attributed]] to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this.

** Also, the sentence he was trying to say was "The guy whose trailer they were whacking off in," and instead tries "The guy in whose trailer they were whacking off."

* There's an episode of ''{{Frasier}}'' where Martin is writing someone a letter and Niles, reading over his shoulder, corrects him for ending a sentence with a preposition. We see Martin, rather annoyed, writing something on the paper and underlining it, gesturing to Niles, to which Niles replies, "Not to be critical, but 'off' is also a preposition."

-->"I asked this Northern woman, 'Where are ya'll from?' And she said, 'I'm from a place where we don't end our sentences with prepositions.' So I said, 'Okay, where are ya'll from, [[Ptitlel9hiod7i bitch]]?'"

-->"I asked this Northern woman, 'Where are ya'll from?' And she said, 'I'm from a place where we don't end our sentences with prepositions.' So I said, 'Okay, where are ya'll from, bitch?'"

** Also, the sentence he was trying to say was "The guy whose trailer they were whacking off in," and instead tries "The guy in whose trailer they were whacking off." Apparently this sentence is impossible without either changing the euphemism or breaking this rule.

--Attributed to WinstonChurchill on being criticized for this.

* One ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode has O'Neill quipping at how evil the Goa'uld must be because he ended a sentence with a preposition... to said Goa'uld.
** All while lying in pain on the floor after being tortured!

* In ''DesigningWomen'' Charlene tells this anecdote:

** that joke's been around before that.