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Contrary to the opinion of many teachers of English, sentences ending with prepositions are not grammatically incorrect. They may at times be awkward, but not ending certain sentences with a preposition produces stilted, over-formal and just silly sounding language.


This is just the sort of English up with which I will not put.

--Winston Churchill

While it is still advisable to reword a sentence ending in a preposition, it is also equally necessary to rework language that relies so heavily on this antiquated rule as to make trouble for a reader.