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Steven Pinker

“For example, there is an old grammarian’s saw about how a sentence can end in five prepositions. Daddy trudges upstairs to Junior’s bedroom to read him a bedtime story. Junior spots the book, scowls, and asks, “Daddy, what did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
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