By Colleen's Contributor, The Grammar Goddess
While visiting a relative living in the windy city, I noticed that many mid-westerners tend to end a sentence with “at.” I heard many people say things along the lines of “Where’s my coat AT?” et cetera. This is not correct because the at is unnecessary; the word “where” already implies place.
A similar grammar mistake that I find myself guilty of at times is the use of an extraneous “of.” An example of this is “I jumped off OF the dock.” The correct way to structure that sentence would be without “of”: “I jumped off the dock.”
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In both cases, frugality with words makes a tighter, and more correct, sentence.
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