Re: ``I see from whom it comes''

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:20:30 GMT

Ron Hardin wrote:
>
> Dan Rather is quoted
>
> "Until someone shows me definitive proof that they are not, I don't
> see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor
> mill," Rather said. "My colleagues and I at '60 Minutes' made great
> efforts to authenticate these documents and to corroborate the story
> as best we could. ... I think the public is smart enough to see from
> whom some of this criticism is coming and draw judgments about what
> the motivations are."
>
> Is there anybody that that sounds grammatical to? It's not even formal
> register any longer.
>
> It's forced by fronting the ``from.''

> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

At long last, Mr. Hardin, have you no ear??

Mr. Rather is of the antiquated opinion (he's nearly 70) that one
doesn't end a sentence with a preposition (normal people would say "to
see who some of this criticism is coming from," but he's Authoritative
and so has to use Authoritative Grammar), so he produces a perfectly
grammatical, by-the-rules sentence, in formal register.

Or do you think he should have said "to see from who some of this
criticism is coming"? 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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