Re: Prepositions
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2001, 12:42 |
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On Monday 01 October 2001 01:24, Tristan wrote:
(please don' t snip attributions!)
> ...
>
> >backward
>
> backwards
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> ...
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> > forward
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> forwards
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> ...
>
> (or is there something special about them?)
And are they prepositions at all? Can someone give an example of
either "backward" or "backwards" used as a preposition on its own
(without additional "of")?
Irina
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