Something I Promise not to Do
rogersgeorge on August 24th, 2024
First panel. People who do this are sometimes called “grammar nazis.”
(I’m sorry, but Comics Kingdom links are bad) The comic is down a ways in this Comic Strip of the Day post: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/07/06/csotd-the-lion-always-gets-his-share/
And actually, in this case he’s defending a spurious rule. That “to” is an adverb at the end of the sentence, part of a separable verb. It’s not a preposition, even though it looks like one.
I’ll save the lesson in the next-to-last panel for another day.
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