Do you ever end sentences with the word "at?"

[Floogeldy]

As, "Where can I get that at?" Or, "Does anyone know where I can download that file at?"

B-)

[tuvor]

1. I hate when people end sentences with prepositions.

Just WHAT is THAT for?

[immoderate]

12. How would you reword that?

Seriously though, don't mix up prepositions with verb particles.

--IMM

[tuvor]

20. Huh? "For" is a preposition.

What exactly is a "verb particle". I taught English, and never came across that term.

Sounds sorta scientific.

[immoderate]

24. Sometimes called phrasal verbs.

Consider the sentence, "I look after this child." Or, "Speed up the transaction."

What is the verb? Look by itself, or after by itself, have totally different meanings than "to look after." The part of the phrasal verb that is derived from a preposition is called the verb particle.

Note the difference between looking up a word, and looking up a dress. "Come across" is a similar construction.

Sometimes the particle is used to make an intransitive verb transitive. Stare takes no object but "stare down" does.

Most English teachers are not Grammarians. In a way it is scientific. I learned it in a grammar course where we had to diagram sentences.

On edit: I hope this helps you catch on.

--IMM

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. NO

While the people who raised me warsh their clothes, I learned proper grammar.

[Redstone]

14. Well, they do warsh their clothes in Philadelphia, and

they warsh them in detergent and wooder. And if their hands get wet, they dry them with a tal.

Redstone

[immoderate]

3. You mean...

I'm going below.
What's that for?
Who is that by?

--IMM

[Floogeldy]

6. No

Your sentences end with below, for and by.

I'm talking about sentences with the word "at" at the end.

B-)

[immoderate]

11. OK, What wesite were you at?

That one of them?

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

4. It's fairly common here in Missouri.

Ending sentences with other prepositions doesn't happen too often, but the "at" is here to stay.

**Now...where's my coat at?**

[scarlet_owl]

10. Very true. As a Missourian, I do it all the time.

I have lots of other funny ways of saying things that were never noticeable until I moved to Illinois.

[Dees]

23. As a Missourian living in Maryland

I can tell you that sentence ending preps are everywhere.

[alittlelark]

5. No... it is soo awkward and needy...

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Where the party at?!

:-)

[DS1]

8. Only when I say "I hate that"

;-)

[Jamastiene]

9. Not "at" but

sometimes I find it hard to construct a sentence without using other words simliar to at sometimes. It bugs me, but my brain is getting too slow plus my interent connection seems to be getting slower so I post what I can as fast as I can before a thread is abandoned.

[RebelOne]

13. Aaaarrrrgggg!!!! Makes me cringe.

That's the worst grammar.

[CO Liberal]

15. Prepositions are Lousy Words to End Sentences With

:-)

[MissMillie]

16. Nope

but I have been known to end a sentence with the preposition "from".

I try not to, but sometimes, I can't help it.

[Silverhair]

17. A Winston Churchill story.

Chruchill had written something that ended with a preposition, and the secretary, on proofreading it returned it to him with the "error" noted. Churchill wrote: "This is the kind of pedantry up with I will not put."

[_TJ_]

18. Oldie - Harvard Joke

A guy from Georgia enrolled at Harvard and on his first day
there was walking across the campus and asked an upperclassman
(drawling heavily),"Excuse me, can you tell me where the library is at?"

The upperclassman responded, "At Harvard we do not end sentences with
prepositions." The Georgian then replied, "Well then, could
you tell me where the library is at, asshole?"

[_TJ_]

19. The Guinness book of records

Once had a catagory for 'sentence ending in the most prepositions'.
It was used by a kid complaining to his mom about an Australian
story book.

"Mother, what on earth did you bring a book to read out of about Down Under up for?"

[TXlib]

21. OK, where's the library at, asshole?

[skygazer]

22. No, and it drives me crazy

I work in a grocery store and hear it quite often - "where's the bathroom at?"

Why can't you just say, "where's the bathroom?"!!! What the hell is the "at" for?

More pet peeves - "these ones" (or those ones), "I was like" to denote speech (I always want to ask, "you were like what?")

I don't know - to some people, it doesn't seem like a big deal but to me, it's not a big deal to speak correctly. It's easy so why not do it?

[kick-ass-bob]

25. I think some people go overboard with caring about this type of stuff.

In my neck of the woods, it seems to be more of a local colloquialism than a 'stupidity factor' (as some on this thread seem to think).

Chill out y'all.