Re: preposition
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 18, 2001, 3:52 |
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At 3/17/01 01:54 PM +1100, you wrote:
>>What store did you buy that at?
>
>You'd say that? I would've said 'Where did you buy that?' (or 'Where ja
>buy that?')
>
>>
>>And even in cases where the preposition is not strictly necessarily,
>>like:
>>
>>Where'd you go to?
>>Where do you live at?
>This just sound 'broken and wrong'.
The all sound perfectly natural to me. I know many peole (including myself)
who say these things regularly.
Marcus Smith
"Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing."
-- Thomas Huxley
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