Comments on: I lately lost a preposition… http://www.papernation.co.uk/blog/2008/08/05/i-lately-lost-a-preposition/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ita watts http://www.papernation.co.uk/blog/2008/08/05/i-lately-lost-a-preposition/comment-page-1/#comment-165 ita watts Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:24:46 +0000 http://www.papernation.co.uk/blog/?p=11#comment-165 I learned this at school too. Slightly different words but same sentiment. "A proposition is a bad word with which to end a sentence - therefore remember I lately lost a preposition It hid I thought beneath my chair And angrily I cried "Perdition, come up from out of in under there!" Now correctness is my Vade Mecum And slovenly phrases I abhor, But yet I sometimes stand and wonder - "What should he come up from out of in under for?" I learned this at school too. Slightly different words but same sentiment. “A proposition is a bad word with which to end a sentence – therefore remember

I lately lost a preposition
It hid I thought beneath my chair
And angrily I cried “Perdition,
come up from out of in under there!”

Now correctness is my Vade Mecum
And slovenly phrases I abhor,
But yet I sometimes stand and wonder -
“What should he come up from out of in under for?”

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