a question:

>Where did you put your keys down?
>Where did you put your keys down at?
>Where did you put your keys at?
>Where did you put your keys?
>Who were you talking to? (This isn't about who(m).)
>To whom were you talking?
>
>By exploring the injunction against sentence-final prepositions,
>they learn something about how to solve problems of grammar.  Of
>course, they can't do this without some knowledge of the content
>of grammar, and this is where the many varied and sometimes
>conflicting approaches to grammar become a problem.

Yes. I'm curious about how knowledge of grammar as a formal or functional
system -- a bounded system outside of a social context, can help a student
to identify possibly acceptable sentences in the options presented above.

How would different ATEG-ers do this?

Judy

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