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by romwell 2878 days ago
>- Don't ending sentences in prepositions

>- Don't split infinitives

>- Don't use double negative

These seem to really be some rules that ain't nobody got time for!

2 comments

Because they were never really rules at all in English, until those grammarians decided to try to make the language conform to Latin's rules.
I think the comment above was in jest. It's actually a pretty good little joke.
My pet peeve in English as well as German is conjunctive use of "that" or "dass" respectively. I'm glad that you got right at least :)