ANAL 4 | This user advocates good grammar usage. |
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whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see. |
You and Me | This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
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to too two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
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their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
they he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
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your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
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its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
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with, at, in, for, to... | This user has no opinion about ending a sentence with a preposition. |
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A note on prepositions. I consider a sentence which ends in a preposition to be poorly phrased, but note that in my opinion many prepositions in the English language are really parts of multi-word verbs. In my view of English grammar, in the sentence “He dropped in on her.” only the word “on” is truly functioning as a preposition. I consider “dropped in” to be a verb with a meaning distinct from that of “dropped”. I don't think most grammarians agree with me, but I think my view makes sense.
The idea of a verb which is made up of a verb and a preposition can be compared to the many Latin verbs which are formed from a preposition and a verb: referre, retinēre, accipere, ascendere, etc. We simply haven't combined them into single words in English, in these cases. (But note that we do commonly use Latin or Greek prepositions as prefixes on English verbs.) So while I try to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition when the preposition is not part of a verb, it's quite acceptable (and very often necessary) if the preposition is functioning as part of the verb, as in the sentence “We had no warning that he would drop by.”