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Re: Prepositions after verbs
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net) 2004/05/24 02:25

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:25:29 +0200
From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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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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