Should You Ever End A Sentence With A Preposition?

[ToraToraTora]

About what are they talking?

[Floko]

I am not bothered nowadays. We were taught at school, never to end with a preposition. but it seems it has become old-fashioned now

[Moorea7]

"What are you sitting on" sounds better than "on what are you sitting?"

Agree with Floko.

[Floko]

I would prefer to say "what have you been up to?" rather than "up to what have you been"

[Bobbisox1]

Floor, is that your wee dog in your Av? ( sorry Tora) 

[Bobbisox1]

Floor? Floko

[ladybirder]

I sometimes alter my sentence when I notice that's what I've done.

[Floko]

Bobbi - He is very  similar to my dog "Floko" now sadly gone over the rainbow bridge 

[ToraToraTora]

Correct, that's the thing, in my example I sound like Yoda but it is technically correct. If I said "What are you talking about?" that scans better!

[Floko]

TTT.  exactly so 

[Bobbisox1]

Ah, beautiful Floko,sorry for your loss 

[Tilly2]

'This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.'

Churchill, I think.

 

[nescio]

How to legitimately end a sentence in eight consecutive prepositions:

the situation - you take a book upstairs to read a story to a child, but you inadvertently take up the wrong book, which happens to be about Australia. The child remonstrates with,

"What have you brought that book I did not want to be read to out of about Down Under up for?" 

[Floko]

Nescio.   Very good 🤣🤣

[Floko]

Bobbi. It was many years ago, but thanks 

[douglas9401]

I confess to forgetting most of that stuff but I can still, more or less, make myself understood.

 

Except in London, hateful place that it is. x

[THECORBYLOON]

NESCIO, I mind on reading that example in the Guinness Book of Records many moons ago, when it was a proper reference book. 

I can't mind on whether it was given as, "Down Under" or "down under" but it said it could be argued it was a noun rather than prepositions.

[jno]

this is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

 

(Not original, obviously.)

[ToraToraTora]

jno 14:51

[Tilly2]

Oi, Jno. Stop copying!

[jno]

sorry, Tilly! I did say it wasn't original...