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In casual conversation, it is perfectly fine to end a sentence with a preposition. How many job applications did you apply to? The grammatically correct way is supposed to be: To how many jo...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:02:24Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Double U
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2019-12-08T10:02:24Z (about 5 years ago)
In casual conversation, it is perfectly fine to end a sentence with a preposition. - How many job applications did you apply to? The grammatically correct way is supposed to be: - To how many job applications did you apply? If the original language's sentence is grammatically correct, then does that mean the English translated sentence must be grammatically correct as well? Or should the casual form be adopted instead to just get the meaning across? My biggest fear is that a monolingual English speaker will read the line in English and interpret that line as being grammatically incorrect, assuming the source language is grammatically incorrect as well, even though the main purpose is not the grammatical correctness. It's the casual tone that is being translated. The characters may in fact be speaking grammatically correctly, just in a different language.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-10-29T14:27:04Z (about 6 years ago)
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