New Grammar

The traditional rule is that you are not allowed to end a sentence in a preposition. No, not just you. No one is allowed to end a sentence in a preposition.

But people don’t care as much as they used to. Oops… People don’t care as much as they used to care.

There must be a compromise – a way to let people write the way they speak and still obey the rules of grammar.

I think I found the compromise: the postposition.

The postposition is a new part of speech that I am introducing.

It contains the same words as the preposition does, but its only use is to appear at the ends of sentences.

Thus, a person can end a sentence with whatever word he wants. If others complain about that sentence ending in a preposition, the speaker can defend himself by claiming the word he used did sound like a preposition but was actually a postposition. Therefore, he is allowed to end a sentence with it. Game over.

He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

Psalm 101:7

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