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The (1) 'never judge a book by its cover' could not be more true for
Ridiculous Rules by Marjorie Allen. The cover is completely blank, whereas the book is
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crammed full of wonderful examples and anecdotes. Allen is an (2)
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issued a (3) of war against textbooks and style books which tell lies.
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Take the ridiculous and (4) rule of never ending a sentence with a
preposition. The lovely - if famous - story goes, that Winston Churchill, well known for
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his numerous (5) as well as for being British Prime Minister during
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the Second World War, received a manuscript back from an ignorant (6)
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, who had told him rather rudely that he had to (7) a sentence
which ended with a preposition. Churchill responded by making the simple yet forceful
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(8) in the margin: 'This is an impertinence up with which I will not
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put.' - the (9) being that not to end a sentence with a preposition
often sounds ridiculous in English. Sadly, Allen informs us that the story is probably mere
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(10) , and that Churchill may have actually only written 'rubbish!' in the margin.
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