My writing is atrocious. I read my last entry and decided I have terrible grammar. I even ended a sentence with a preposition. It's a good thing I decided to major in spanish and not english
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Don't worry about the preposition. That is an antiquated rule that the old Powers That Be decided needed to apply in English, so they stole it from Latin. Technically, the rule that you should never end a sentence with a preposition is not a rule in English, but a rule in Latin some old fart in the 15th century decided must also apply in English because Latin was the perfect language. However, you cannot just take a rule from another language and insert it into another. Proof of this is the fact that people in English speaking lands the world over continue to use prepositions at the end of sentences, even though grammarians and English teachers have been "correcting" them for centuries now. In other (simplified) words, yes, you can use a preposition at the end of a sentence, because it's a false rule.
And, oh yeah, I'm Cliff's sister. An English major, so you can believe me. Really.
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And, oh yeah, I'm Cliff's sister. An English major, so you can believe me. Really.
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