Journalists pride themselves on proper use of grammar, even when shouting expletives. So, what’s a journalist to do when he or she wants to say “fuck off’” without ending in a nasty preposition? The photo below should help.
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“Fuck off” ends in an adverb, not a preposition.
Andrew is right. Off is often called an adverbial proposition but it is not.
off – Wiktionary
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/off
Used in many phrasal verbs, off is an adverbial particle often mistakenly thought of as a preposition. (It can be used as a preposition, but such usage is rare.)
“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”
-Winston Churchill
I want to hug this post.
But wouldn’t “off is the general direction” then be a passive?
“Off” is an adverb when used in the imperative voice.
Offward, fuck!
The rule that English forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is specious. It’s true in Latin, which educated people spoke a few centuries ago. The pretentious ones among them assumed English should follow suit.
For edification, check out
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2012/02/lexicon_valley_why_we_think_we_can_t_end_a_sentence_with_a_preposition_.html?wpisrc=twitter_socialflow
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