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I grew up in a household where our parents stressed the proper use of English. My father and mother were both journalists. I never was one myself but their career choice still somehow seeped into me.
When I started school, for some odd reason I felt a kinship with prepositions. One of my former French teachers hated prepositions (whether French or English) but I absolutely loved them. It was a thrill memorizing them.
OK, that’s weird. But it continues to this day. One of the misuses I hear a lot is “just between you and I…..” Noooooo, please……..object of a preposition. “Just between you and me.”
I never correct people unless they ask (which is never) but I would like to. Politeness was also drilled into us kids.
And even though we all end sentences with a preposition, it’s still considered incorrect, no matter how awkward it sounds.
As my dear old pappy used to say: “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put!”