[Lexicog] Re: Grammatical Ironies

[Jimrem at AOL.COM]

A  preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with!

I always liked this one:
 
 
I lately lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my  chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there."  
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I  abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of in under  for?" 
Morris Bishop in the New  Yorker, 27th September, 1947.

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