Assuming you're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, then what's the correct way to say "Please choose the page to link to"?
That is bad advice. Specifically, it is advice up with which you should not put.
It is perfectly OK in English to end a sentence with a preposition.
So, how did the silly idea that it's not come about? 18th century prescriptive grammarians, basically. These people looked at the grammar of Latin and said "English doesn't follow the same grammar rules as Latin! Therefore English is bad!".
There is in fact a perfectly good reason why English doesn't follow latin grammar: English is a different language to Latin, with a grammar of its own.
(Incidently, this is also the reason why people who are ill-educated or unsure of themselves say things like "It is I" instead of the much more natural (and IMO more correct) "It is me".)
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Date: 2008-10-15 02:14 pm (UTC)That is bad advice. Specifically, it is advice up with which you should not put.
It is perfectly OK in English to end a sentence with a preposition.
So, how did the silly idea that it's not come about? 18th century prescriptive grammarians, basically. These people looked at the grammar of Latin and said "English doesn't follow the same grammar rules as Latin! Therefore English is bad!".
There is in fact a perfectly good reason why English doesn't follow latin grammar: English is a different language to Latin, with a grammar of its own.
(Incidently, this is also the reason why people who are ill-educated or unsure of themselves say things like "It is I" instead of the much more natural (and IMO more correct) "It is me".)