To End a Sentence With a Preposition Or Not? That is the question.

It is not something I think of.

I’ll I can say is what were they thinking of?

{edit: oops I’m a bit late to the dance.}

Well...I can change mine to, "It is not something I think about."

Truthfully, though...I do.

If I seriously were writing those sentences, I would have contorted them in order to keep the prepositions away from the end.

I would have written, "It is not something about which I think"...even though doing so would have made that an obviously false sentence.

I think that's one of those grammar rules that's really archaic. I heard a debate on it years ago and it was quite funny. The only time I ever consciously make the effort is if I have to write To Whom it May Concern; otherwise, no. It's too unwieldy.

From Scribb:

Where does the “rule” come from? The rule is generally attributed to the 17th-century writers Joshua Poole and John Dryden. They based their objection to preposition stranding on Latin grammar. In Latin, a sentence can never end with a preposition.

So... two guys thought this was a 'should'... who cares?

exactly!