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(28,742 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
(23,023 posts)Botany
(72,647 posts)GoCubsGo
(33,140 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
(33,362 posts)Again
Kaleva
(38,514 posts)GP6971
(33,362 posts)Kaleva
(38,514 posts)GP6971
(33,362 posts)Kaleva
(38,514 posts)edbermac
(16,123 posts)But it looks like the MIRT team nuked her before I had a chance to carry out my civic duty.
Kaleva
(38,514 posts)keep_left
(2,512 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
(12,441 posts)Daddy, why did you bring the book I didnt want to be read to out of up for?
keep_left
(2,512 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,762 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
(45,762 posts)Dr Seuss approves.
Kaleva
(38,514 posts)Maybe someone with better eyesight can verify if it's there or not
Botany
(72,647 posts)LisaM
(28,742 posts)We won that territory before Wisconsin was even a state!
Kaleva
(38,514 posts)If I drive due south, I'll come to WI.
lame54
(37,191 posts)lame54
(37,191 posts)lame54
(37,191 posts)underpants
(187,251 posts)Link to tweet
?s=46&t=2qfoQ5t2-x5UD2qvnA3W1A
Sanity Claws
(22,061 posts)Missing:
Long Island, NY
Florida Keys
Upper Peninsula, MI
Is part of Maine missing too? It doesn't look right to me.
keithbvadu2
(40,448 posts)Her study partner was Sarah Palin who says Africa is a country.
spanone
(137,659 posts)Abolishinist
(2,060 posts)Skittles
(160,236 posts)YES INDEED