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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2762471" data-attributes="member: 141">I have never understood why this was a rule.  There's a story that an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, had scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”(note: google tells me that there are many variations, and it may not have been Churchill.  Anyway)I suspect that it might be an attempt to mimic the rules of Latin, kinda like the rule against splitting an infinitive.  But I don't know enough Latin to know if it is bad style to end a Latin sentence with a preposition.Here's a nice website: <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html" target="_blank">Common Errors in English</a></blockquote>