I usually don't involve myself in matters of style or the relative merits of one's form of supplying the denotation unless, of course, the connotation is so garbled by the delivery that I feel the need to ask for clarification.
It is one thing for a business or someone penning a paper for a journal to err (just called Canton Mills in MN owing to their misspelling of amorphous `amorphos'? in their description of their diatomaceous earth).
That said, English teachers should read the book on the far left of the row (can then explain how the rules evolved and why they'll continue to do so).
My advice to students: learn it cold and then twist it to your own purposes.
Being a bit too persnickety? I'll just quote Winston Churchill on his opinion regading the rule that concerns NOT ending a sentence with a preposition:
It is one thing for a business or someone penning a paper for a journal to err (just called Canton Mills in MN owing to their misspelling of amorphous `amorphos'? in their description of their diatomaceous earth).
That said, English teachers should read the book on the far left of the row (can then explain how the rules evolved and why they'll continue to do so).
My advice to students: learn it cold and then twist it to your own purposes.
Being a bit too persnickety? I'll just quote Winston Churchill on his opinion regading the rule that concerns NOT ending a sentence with a preposition:
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
I got his drift...
(often edit for sp/gr/clarity, but my wetware is going frayed)
I got his drift...
(often edit for sp/gr/clarity, but my wetware is going frayed)
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