8 Grammar Errors That Make Admission Officers Cringe

HarrietMWelsch
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:51:13 +0000

Also from the CMOS website: “CMOS has never prohibited a preposition at the end of a sentence in any of its versions and editions since 1906. The first edition to state positively that a preposition may end a sentence was the 15th, in 2003, the first edition of the Manual to contain a chapter on grammar.”

They really mean it. CMOS 5.180: “The traditional caveat of yesteryear against ending sentences or clauses with prepositions is an unnecessary and pedantic restriction. And it is wrong.”