It is as hard to change bad grammar as it is for a fish who is swimming against the current. The truth of the matter is that phrases similar to "swimming upstream" have become such a part of the lexicon that we do not even realize that we are ending a sentence with a preposition.
I have found plenty of fodder from television commercials to jump-start this blog. I was worried that I would start the week without a column. I was forwarded this following article on which fish to avoid. The title of the article "12 Fish to Stay away from."Wow! Really! Isn't it bad enough that the title of the article ends in one preposition? This one ends with two prepositions. I find it hard to believe that the publication doesn't have spell-check and grammar-check on their computers.
The title of the Article should have been: "Twelve Fish to Avoid" or something more in-depth, such as "Twelve fish to Catch and 12 Fish to Release."
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