Stephen Pinker (brilliant - check out his stuff on Youtube or get your hands on his books) writes in this article that many grammar rules that prescriptivists say should not be broken are 'up for discussion'.
I have one issue with what he says; in the middle of the article, he talks about the famous criticism of ridiculous grammar rules ("This is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put.") and reprases it to end with the preposition 'up', saying that that is grammatically correct... but if you keep the verb phrase 'to put up with' together, you end up with 'This is the kind of pedantry which I will not put up with.' Which actually sounds better to me than his alternative but is it as grammatically correct?
Be prepared to read this in several installments to make the most of the gems within.
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