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[db-wg] Implementation of POEM object

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Niall O'Reilly Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
Wed May 11 12:56:34 CEST 2005

On 11 May 2005, at 11:43, Titley, Nigel wrote:

> ending a sentence with a preposition is perhaps to be regarded as 
> slightly
> suspect style.

Not really.

 From the Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd edition (ISBN 0-19-8613474):

> The superstition that a preposition should always precede the word
> it governs and should not end a sentence [...] is not based on a
> real appreciation of the structure of English [...].

/Niall

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