MyShirley  +  244663 Tue, 11 Jul 06 06:55 PM Which company did you work for? Is it correct? thanks MyShirley Joined on Thu, Jan 26 2006 Full Member 239

	Grammar Geek  +  244685 Tue, 11 Jul 06 07:46 PM Yes, it's fine. There are many ways to ask this question. This assumes the person no longer works there. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Mancroft  +  244686 Tue, 11 Jul 06 07:51 PM For is a preposition. It is considered bad style to put a preposition at the end of a sentence. So a more grammatically-correct sentence would be: "For which company do you work?" However in normal usage in the UK, most people will tend to use "Which company did you work for?". But then, most people won't know what a preposition is. Mancroft Joined on Sun, Jul 9 2006 New Member 22 Prepositions

	Grammar Geek  +  244697 Tue, 11 Jul 06 08:17 PM The "rule" about ending a sentence with a preposition is outdated, if it ever truly existed except as a rumor. What's bad grammar is to end a sentence with a preposition by saying "Where are you at?" where the "at" doesn't belong. "Where did you work at?" is wrong. "Which company did you work for?" if fine. Grammar Geek Grammar, Prepositions

	Mancroft  +  244698 Tue, 11 Jul 06 08:23 PM  Grammar Geek wrote: The "rule" about ending a sentence with a preposition is outdated, if it ever truly existed except as a rumor. What's bad grammar is to end a sentence with a preposition by saying "Where are you at?" where the "at" doesn't belong. "Where did you work at?" is wrong. "Which company did you work for?" if fine. I was brought up in days of yore when such niceties of English grammar were beaten into us! Mancroft Grammar, Prepositions, English Grammar

	Marius Hancu  +  244729 Tue, 11 Jul 06 10:33 PM  Grammar Geek wrote: The "rule" about ending a sentence with a preposition is outdated, if it ever truly existed except as a rumor. Garner agrees: ---------- When someone once upbraided him for ending a sentence with a preposition he [Winston Churchill] rejoined: That is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put. Avoiding a preposition at the end of the sentence sometimes leads to just such a preposterous monstrosity. Good writers don't hesitate to end their sentences with prepositions if doing so results in phrasing that seems natural. The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with. George Orwell. The particularities of legal English are often used as a stick to beat the official with. Ernest Gowers. Poetry, as Dr. Johnson said, is untranslatable and hence, it if is good, preserves the language it is written in. Anthony Burgess. Garner, Modern American Usage, p. 633 (has a full page on this subject) ----------- Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673 Grammar, Prepositions, Legal English