Is Usually A Preposition Quotes

#1. Who are you going swimming with?" Kinsley asked again.

"You're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition," I replied.

"Stop changing the subject! With whom do you plan to swim?!

R.S. Grey

#2. If is a very big preposition.

John Major

#3. Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. Anastasia. I want you to behave in a particular way, and if you don't, I shall punish you, and you will learn to behave the way I desire.

E.L. James

#5. You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Daria Snadowsky

#6. I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

William Zinsser

#7. I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

Lea Michele

#9. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston S. Churchill

#10. A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

Winston S. Churchill

#11. It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier.

David Foster Wallace

#12. She's as funny as a toothache

Erma Bombeck

#13. I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell.

Matthew Pearl

#14. The way I figured it, Jesus had the poor close to His heart because they were the ones who had nothing else to hold onto.

Susie Finkbeiner

#15. When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.

C.S. Lewis

#16. A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

Berton Braley

#17. Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

Winston Churchill

#18. It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Kingsley Amis

#19. If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.

Don DeLillo

#20. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.

Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

#21. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

#22. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper