Final Prepositions PDF

Final Prepositions — Example #2: Don’t end a sentence with a preposition! — Again, this rule makes sense for some other languages — Generally speaking, it is descriptively impossible to strand a preposition in the Romance languages. That is, NO native speaker of those languages would ever produce...

Final Prepositions — Example #2: Don’t end a sentence with a preposition! — Again, this rule makes sense for some other languages — Generally speaking, it is descriptively impossible to strand a preposition in the Romance languages. That is, NO native speaker of those languages would ever produce (or accept) a sentence like the one below (from Spanish): *Quién estás hablando con? Gloss: Who are.you talking with Don’t end a sentence with a preposition! 14 — The only possible version for Spanish speakers is: Con Gloss: With quién estás who are-you hablando? talking — But that’s not descriptively true of English where we have two possibilities. “Who are you talking to?” “To whom are you talking?” Descriptive & Prescriptive Grammar: Practice 15 Are the following sentences grammatical according to a prescriptive grammarian? And to a descriptive grammarian? Prescriptive vs. Descriptive 1. “I wanna see that movie”. 2. “I want to see that movie”. 3. “Movie that see want I”. Descriptive & Prescriptive Grammar — Reminder: Just because a descriptive grammar might allow things not allowed by a prescriptive grammar, this doesn’t mean that “anything goes” with a descriptive grammar. ¡ All languages and language varieties follow rules. ¡ We have already seen some examples that are descriptively * A Linguist’s Grammar — When a linguist refers to ‘grammar’, they may not be referring to the grammar of a specific language. — One of the goals of linguistics is to understand the range of properties that are shared by all languages and the ways in which languages can differ.