I concur with "the night before" as a phrase that's now common enough as to be unremarkable-- and also think that the "no ending a sentence with a preposition" now falls under the "more like guidelines than actual rules" part of English grammar. ;-)
The CCC grammar website's discussion of the "prepositions at the end of a sentence" issue claims that it was a fairly late grammatical rule, and has now been replaced by focusing on clear/non-awkward sentence construction:
The Easy Writer list of the top 20 grammatical errors doesn't include "putting a preposition at the end of a sentence" on it, which leads me to believe that the authors don't see that as a grammatical error per se. http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/20errors/
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:44 pm (UTC)From:The CCC grammar website's discussion of the "prepositions at the end of a sentence" issue claims that it was a fairly late grammatical rule, and has now been replaced by focusing on clear/non-awkward sentence construction:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm#ending
The Easy Writer list of the top 20 grammatical errors doesn't include "putting a preposition at the end of a sentence" on it, which leads me to believe that the authors don't see that as a grammatical error per se.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/20errors/
Hope that helps!
JD