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Where do you put your prepositions at?

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Bucky Katt said:
You committed the heinous act brazenly. Hoat shall respond shortly. You best edit your post quickly.
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You posted quickly. I hope hoat realizes that I was responding jokingly. Maybe it was sarcastically. It may have been unknowingly. It was definitely unflinchingly. But no one should say it was heroically. I'm speaking theoretically.
 
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I keep my prepositions in a box and use them as sparingly as possible.

Crap - I just used one in the last sentence with "in a box."

Crap - I just used another one.

I'll shut up now.

(CRAP!!!)
 
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BB73 said:
You posted quickly. I hope hoat realizes that I was responding jokingly. Maybe it was sarcastically. It may have been unknowingly. It was definitely unflinchingly. But no one should say it was heroically. I'm speaking theoretically.
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After reading the above message. I have since gouged my eyes out with my pen. BB73 you should be receiving my medical bill shortly. :wink2:
 
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hoat said:
After reading the above message. I have since gouged my eyes out with my pen. BB73 you should be receiving my medical bill shortly. :wink2:
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Then you'll be receiving one of these soon thereafter, but it will be sent carefully, and heartlesssly:

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Since I no longer have the eyes to read the messages. A co-worker has read it to me and told me you said you would promptly pay the bill. I always knew you were a stand up guy BB. :biggrin:
 
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hoat said:
Since I no longer have the eyes to read the messages. A co-worker has read it to me and told me you said you would promptly pay the bill. I always knew you were a stand up guy BB. :biggrin:
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I'll make sure I stand up when I pound that big-ass 'DENIED' stamp on it. :wink2:

p.s. Don't let that co-worker get money out of your wallet for you, that's a bad idea, decidedly.
 
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hoat said:
At the end of a sentence, always.

BTW:

Usage Note: It was John Dryden who first promulgated the doctrine that a preposition may not be used at the end of a sentence, probably on the basis of a specious analogy to Latin. Grammarians in the 18th century refined the doctrine, and the rule has since become one of the most venerated maxims of schoolroom grammar. But sentences ending with prepositions can be found in the works of most of the great writers since the Renaissance. English syntax does allow for final placement of the preposition, as in <CITE>We have much to be thankful for</CITE> or <CITE>I asked her which course she had signed up for.</CITE> Efforts to rewrite such sentences to place the preposition elsewhere can have stilted and even comical results, as Winston Churchill demonstrated when he objected to the doctrine by saying “This is the sort of English up with which I cannot put.” ·Sometimes sentences that end with adverbs, such as <CITE>I don't know where she will end up</CITE> or <CITE>It's the most curious book I've ever run across,</CITE> are mistakenly thought to end in prepositions. One can tell that up and across are adverbs here, not prepositions, by the ungrammaticality of <CITE>I don't know up where she will end</CITE> and <CITE>It's the most curious book across which I have ever run.</CITE> It has never been suggested that it is incorrect to end a sentence with an adverb.​
So let it be noted that I Hoat, on this 18th day of April 2006, has decreed that it is incorrect to end a sentence with an adverb. (input smug smile while smoking a pipe)
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:lol: Adverbs are cool, absotively...
 
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