Grammar-'custodians' (a.k.a. Grammar-Police, -Nerds, -Nazis etc.) love to pounce on rule-breakers who make the mistake of "ending their sentences with prepositions (with, at, to ... 'everywhere a bunny can run')"
Your Dictionary's interpretation of that rule is 'different from*' my interpretation of that rule—I always thought the exception was 'you can use a preposition at the end of a sentence if that phrase is the object of another preposition' ... but trying to think of an example, I see that their exception-rule ('you can end with a preposition if "leaving it out" would change the meaning of the sentence—"Turn the TV on!" vs. "Turn the TV ...!") is actually more-accurate.
'That word' (below-hyperlinked to my post on parts-of-speech) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Preposition” is built on “Before (Pre-) + to Put, Set, Place (Position).”
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
him why he's not"—Won't you show me
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
*That's their sixth rule: 'Use "from" and not "than" with the word "different-"—not 'a hard-&-fast rule,' more just 'a suggestion to avoid raising any red-flags (anything that might annoy grammarians).'
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