Taking grammar too seriously

[spudtater]

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"?

I get "Please choose the page to which to link", which makes me sound a bit like an owl...   8^)

Comments

[brucec.livejournal.com]

There are certain ways of writing that have passed into general acceptance, such as writing "for free", which annoy a minority of people; there are others that still annoy a lot of people, like the message that landed in my Inbox from Informatics the other day, entitled "London Event Invite - Lecture & Reception". The reason some people find incorrect sentences annoying is because it clashes and makes them pause to understand the meaning.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

A fair point — everything comes down eventually to clarity and unambiguity.

In this instance, I see "...to link to" as far more clear than "...to which to link", so despite its slightly less formal tone, I would choose the former.

("Invite" grates on me too — if you must shorten a noun, please don't choose an existing verb.)