Auffie’s Random Thoughts

Thursday, February 24, 2005

A sentence that ends with five prepositions

I got a kick out of this from the Impromptu of Jay Nordlinger today:
A reader says, "Remember the old sentence that ends in not one but five prepositions? A kid sends Mommy downstairs for a bedtime reading book. She gets the wrong one, so the kid says, 'What did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?' "

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