First reported in Plain Words (1948) by Sir Ernest Gowers, it is said that Winston Churchill once made this marginal comment against a sentence that clumsily avoided a prepositional ending.
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put".
What a good job he never read the following sentence as it ends with a surprising FIVE prepositions!
"What did you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"
It takes a bit of practise to say that! There is your challenge for the day.
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