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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

From inside the book?

Hi. Please help. I am sure the word "from" is a preposition. and I think a noun follows a preposition. If it is true, are the following phrases correct? Thannk you for your help in advance.

from inside the book
from among the people .
  

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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, says of this use in definition 10 under "preposition", "With another preposition following: indicating initial position or state", supplying a citation from Mackenzie, "My grandmother ... " They date it to Old English. This is a great example of how grammar is stupid.

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  • The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, says of this use in definition 10 under "preposition", "With another preposition following: indicating initial position or state", supplying a citation from Mackenzie, "My grandmother ...
  • " They date it to Old English.
  • This is a great example of how grammar is stupid.
  • We say what we say.
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, says of this use in definition 10 under "preposition", "With another preposition following: indicating initial position or state", supplying a citation from Mackenzie, "My grandmother ... looking at me from under her spectacles." They date it to Old English.

This is a great example of how grammar is stupid. We say what we say.
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There are two-word prepositions.
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AlpheccaStarsThere are two-word prepositions.
Hey, A!

And just for AG, here's a three-word preposition with no object: He was so deep in debt, he didn't know how he was ever going to get out from under.
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THE NAUGHTY PREPOSITION
by Morris Bishop

I lately lost a preposition
It hid I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried: "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!"

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And strangling phrases I abhor:
And yet I wondered: "What should he
come up from out of in under for!"
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