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From: "Excalibur131" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:34:27 -0500
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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Prepositions - what to do


> 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

How about might have, could have, and should have :-)

DeAnna, when you say "rules-based without necessarily being list-based" what
do you mean? Are you saying "rules-based" meaning to follow grammatical
rules as provided in the language?

Tom



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