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Re: Prepositions

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...>
Date:Sunday, September 30, 2001, 12:42
On Monday 01 October 2001 01:24, Tristan wrote:

(please don' t snip attributions!)

> ... > > >backward > > backwards > > ... > > > forward > > forwards > > ... > > (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 -- irina@valdyas.org http://www.valdyas.org/irina --------------------------------------------------------------------- By my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for. We shall be flouting; we cannot hold. - William Shakespeare, _As You Like It_

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