[lit-ideas] Re: "Literally"

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:46:22 EDT

Other use of language which has gotten my attention today.  An advertisement 
for a furniture store today said, and no I'm not misquoting, "just 20 miles 
from almost anywhere".  And every company I call which puts me on hold has a 
recorded message stating "Your call will be answered in the order it was 
received 
in."  Is it now considered appropriate usage to end sentences with 
prepositions?  You who teach comp & rhetoric -- if a student hands a paper in 
with a 
sentence like the above, do you mark it as an error?

Julie Krueger
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