9 Outdated Grammar Rules You Can Finally Ignore

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When I write, I make my own rules. Words and punctuation marks do what I tell them, and I don't need Man to put limits on me. I will use punctuation marks you have never heard of. Watch: ❦ It's a hedera! I don't even know what that means!

Not many people can handle my level of compositional anarchy, so they try to apply "rules" they were taught in English classes there a long time, but many of these rules have changed over time or were never rules to begin with. The whole idea of ​​grammatical rules is suspect. Dictionaries and style guides are not your boss; they only provide descriptions of how the language is most commonly used.

Anyway, here are nine common grammar "rules" you can forget about.

[embedded content] Never end a sentence with a preposition!

If someone tells you that you can't end a sentence with a preposition, tell them: "Stop it. I will finish my sentences as I want."

It's often less formal to end a sentence with a preposition, but sometimes it's silly to not end a sentence with a preposition. Nobody has...