Re: Lin: Postpositions
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 5, 2002, 1:43 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> I haven't had time to go through the other grammars I have, but I'd be
> mighty suprised if I found any that had more than 50; and I don't think
> English is exactly overburdened with them.
I remember an anecdote about a teacher who had prepared a canonical
List Of All English Prepositions -- until one of her students
pointed out that "abaft" was missing.
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