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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:26:46 -0800
In-Reply-To: <061901c51e83$7f495ab0$086e6344@tom0dnsc7w60co>


Tom wrote:
>>It looks like the message traffic over the past several day's really got
some of us to thinking about prepositions. ... In, on, at, by, above, over,
beside, around, opposite, across from, among, inside, out, outside, under,
below, in front of, near, between, behind, and through ... <<

<chuckles>

That's exactly why I don't favor anything that would involve a prescribed
list of prepositions. For one thing, it'd be unwieldy in the extreme. For
another, you left off my favorite modifiers (probably, possibly, perhaps,
etc.) which I use in conjunction with prepositions -- or occasionally in
place of them if I'm not sweating the grammar. ;) What we need is a system
that is rules-based without necessarily being list-based.

DeAnna

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