Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 17, 2001, 3:23 |
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 3/16/01 6:56:35 AM, pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU writes:
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><< The Doctor is in. >>
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>That's a shortening of "The Doctor is in his office", or something similar.
>At least, I always believed so...
I suppose you can call it a shortening if you like! The fact remains,
though, that the adposition comes at the end of the sentence. I've
always simply taken it to be "in with no specified location", by the
way.
Padraic.
>-David