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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Metaphors By which We Live
Wouldn't the title "Metaphors We Live By" Lakoff) be more correctly titled were it "Metaphors By which We Live"?
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It just depends on whether or not you're a stickler for not ending a sentence in a proposition , rather a preposition.
- It just depends on whether or not you're a stickler for not ending a sentence in a proposition , rather a preposition.
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It just depends on whether or not you're a stickler for not ending a sentence in a proposition,
rather a preposi
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Are there really grammar books out there that continue to insist that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong? Or is the real problem 117-year-old English teachers who repeat what the nuns taught them?
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Grammar GeekAre there really grammar books out there that continue to insist that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong?
I've only ever seen texts that tell you that the texts that tell you that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong are wrong...
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