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(27,801 posts)It's a photo. A map shows things like streets and roads and other things that can be mapped. This is not a map.
Maraya1969
(22,478 posts)Botany
(70,490 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,079 posts)It's clear that she never learned that one should never end a sentence with a preposition.
(Apparently, Brian Krassenstein has not learned this, as well.)
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GP6971
(31,141 posts)Again
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)GP6971
(31,141 posts)Kaleva
(36,294 posts)GP6971
(31,141 posts)Kaleva
(36,294 posts)edbermac
(15,937 posts)But it looks like the MIRT team nuked her before I had a chance to carry out my civic duty.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)keep_left
(1,783 posts)(Attributed, possibly apocryphally, to Churchill).
https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/wschiess/legalwriting/2007/07/prepositions-ending-with-understanding.html
The rule generally is true, but naturalness of sentence structure should prevail, according to at least one modern style manual I've seen. The blog link gives a revised version of the Churchill quote which is more correct, though it also ends in a preposition.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Daddy, why did you bring the book I didnt want to be read to out of up for?
keep_left
(1,783 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Wrong on everything and filled with a bunch of nothing.
Babble? It speaks, signifying ... Um ... Um ... Um ...
Bobble? Head moves up and down.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Dr Seuss approves.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)Maybe someone with better eyesight can verify if it's there or not
Botany
(70,490 posts)LisaM
(27,801 posts)We won that territory before Wisconsin was even a state!
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)If I drive due south, I'll come to WI.
lame54
(35,284 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)underpants
(182,769 posts)Link to tweet
?s=46&t=2qfoQ5t2-x5UD2qvnA3W1A
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)Missing:
Long Island, NY
Florida Keys
Upper Peninsula, MI
Is part of Maine missing too? It doesn't look right to me.
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Her study partner was Sarah Palin who says Africa is a country.
spanone
(135,823 posts)Abolishinist
(1,293 posts)Skittles
(153,147 posts)YES INDEED