Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 0:43 |
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Charles wrote:
> We never end sentences with prepositions, but with adverbs.
Sure we do, our English teachers may berate us for it, but we do it
anyways. "What are you looking at?", for instance, "that's what I'm
talking about" (how the heck are you supposed to adjust that, praytell?
"that's the thing about which I'm talking"???)
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