[Ads-l] Pied-pipe a preposition, but don't pied-pipe a particle (i.e. "up with which I will not put")

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Sun Jun 27 19:19:11 UTC 2021


In this piece for Grammar Girl, I cover the "up with which I will not 
put" joke, with nods to Fred Shapiro and John Robert Ross:

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/up-with-which-i-will-not-put

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-preposition/

The quick, dirty, and alliterative rule that did NOT make it into the 
final script: Pied-pipe a preposition, but don't pied-pipe a particle!


Neal



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