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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: Using a preposition to end a sentence up with
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 14:08:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 14:08:33 1984
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The rule prohibiting using a preposition to end a sentence up with (!)
was instituted several hundred years ago by John Dryden, the English
poet and Latin scholar, and based on the fact, as has been pointed out,
that it is never done in Latin.

Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, by the way, is a masterpiece.
I still remember large chunks of it from high school (where we got samples
of it in conjunction with studying the original).
	"Arms and the man I sing, who forc'd by fate
	 And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate..."

Dave Sherman
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