Heard on the Today Show
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Mar 26 14:19:37 UTC 2008
"She can't wait to vote, but _she refuses to tell us for whom she's going to_."
I can't find anything wrong with this sentence, but it's different,
somehow, even ignoring the stricture that ending a sentence with a
preposition is something up with which one should not put. You kinda
expect:
"... she refuses to tell us for who(m)."
"... she refuses to tell us who(m) she's going to vote for."
"... she refuses to tell us who for."
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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