WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS "ABOUT?" ENDING A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION

"BLUE" JIMMY:  ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAVEN

BLIND DOG OZZY:  NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Webster's Dictionary defines a preposition as: "a word or group of words that is used with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to show direction, location or time, or to introduce an object."  Basically, prepositions are words that are used to express the relationship between the elements of a sentence.

BLIND DOG OZZY:  Yeah, if you're not a native English speaker, you're already up s**t creek without a paddle!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  If you've ever had an English teacher or professor

 with a stuffy British accent, they probably drilled it into your head that you are not to use a preposition at the end of a sentence.  

STUFFY PROFESSOR WITH A BRITISH ACCENT

Some common examples of prepositions are:

• at 
• with
• from
• of
• for
• about 
• like
• beyond
• out
• over

BLIND DOG OZZY:  No one ever uses these words at the end of a sentence! ...

"BLUE" JIMMY:  ... Unless you're a Bloody American!  I can whip out 10 quick common American phrases which end with these prepositions:

1. "Where you at?"
2. "Who are you going with?"
3. "Where are you from?"
4. "That's what you're thinking of."
5. "That's what your brain is for!"
6. "What's all the fuss about?"  (as used in the title of this blog!)
7. "You know what that's like!"
8. "He's gone to the Great Beyond."
9. "Everybody, out!"
10. BLIND DOG OZZY:  "He really got f**ked over!"

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Yeah, that just goes to show that the rules of American English are not etched in stone and if you really want to speak American, you gotta break the rules.


BLIND DOG OZZY:  Like I could give a s**t!  Or is it "... couldn't give a s**t?"

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Sake's Alive! 

BLIND DOG OZZY:  Wow!  Wow!
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