--- Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> wrote: > > To which universities is he applying? > or (probably more correct) > To what universities is he applying? Nothing wrong with those, but nothing wrong with "Which universities is he applying to?" either. The old baloney about "never end a sentence with a preposition" refers to Latin grammar. Latin prepositions always come just before the noun phrase they govern, even in dialogue showing the speech of the uneducated. That's just not so in English. As Churchill is said to have put it, "This is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put." -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250