Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:25:29 +0200
From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: Prepositions after verbs
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migmam wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> Question:
>
> is "Whom did you tell this story" equals or similar to "Who did you tell
> this story to"?
Shouldn't this be 'To whom did you tell this story'?
Also, I thought it was a typical Bad Thing to end a sentence with a
preposition, the word meaning 'putting in front of' or something (see
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=preposition).
roy
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