Oho! Never end a sentence with a preposition.
Here's a challenge for you: Who can rewrite this sentence:
I'm sure a few people here can identify who that quote is from.
without ending the sentence with a preposition?
Ah, yes: An overly pedantic rule that was mocked in least 1 famously sarcastic observation:
"A
preposition is a terrible thing to
end a sentence
with."
--W.L.S. Churc
hill [
*] (quote attribution from memory, thus possibly incorrect attribution).
When a syntactic structure is awkward, don't preserve that awkwardness by applying a trivial fix--
recast the whole sentence or clause!
I'm sure a few people here can
identify• the
person to
whom that quote is
attributed.
• the
origin of that quote.
• the
originator of that quote.
• the
source of that quote.
• the
speaker (who's)
being quoted.
Where "origin" & "source" could instead be a citation from what might broadly be considered the literature in some field, instead of the name of a person.
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Note
*: Churc
hill is the author, most relevantly herein, of the 4-or-5-volume series
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, altho' his comparably long series on the
Second World War might've gained more readers.
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