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Stenka25 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

"mount by" problem

I came across the below sentence in a book in which the underlined part seems odd to me.

I think the verb 'mount' as 'transitive verb,' so the part needs an object to say what we mount by the stepping-stones.

Am I right?

? The circumstances of which so many people complain should be regarded as the very tools with which we should work, and the stepping-stones which we are to mount by.
  

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mount is intransitive in this usage. mount means rise, go to a higher place. ________ should be regarded as ...

— CalifJim

  • mount is intransitive in this usage.
  • mount means rise, go to a higher place.
  • ________ should be regarded as ...
  • the stepping-stones we are to mount by.
  • ~ should be regarded as ...
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mount is intransitive in this usage. mount means rise, go to a higher place.

________

should be regarded as ... the stepping-stones we are to mount by.

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should be regarded as ... the stepping-stones by which we should mount.

________

by means by means of.

We should mount by means of th
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