Re: Grammaticaly correct sentences (or not...)

Tony Mountifield schrieb:
> In article <fs86pc$5j0$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Ildhund <jnllb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:iWF1jtASa55HFw7K@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> At 11:58:04 on Mon, 24 Mar 2008, myname <lslfkjs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
in 
>>> <47e78939$0$860$ba4acef3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>>
>>>> 9) It is Mel that Leslie seems to want to give a book to
>>> 9. Incorrect order - try "It is Mel to whom Leslie seems to want to
give a 
>>> book"
>> I would say that your correction of no. 9 is the sort of language up
with 
>> which Churchill refused to put.
> 
> I thought it was not the language or the grammar, but the
insubordination of
> being corrected about it, up with which Churchill refused to put.
> 
An element of both, I believe. He was protesting against the correction 
of a sentence he had written which he had ended with a preposition. 
Don't forget that he regarded himself as somewhat of a prose stylist.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan