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Ant_222 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"based off", "based off of"

Hi all,

I just met this phrase, and tried looking it up in an on-line dictionary, but it wasn't there.

Could anyone tell be about it? Is it at least correct?

P.S.: I seem to have understood the meaning: "based on".
  

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Hi, I just met this phrase, and tried looking it up in an on-line dictionary, but it wasn't there. Could anyone tell be about it? Is it at least correct?

  • Hi, I just met this phrase, and tried looking it up in an on-line dictionary, but it wasn't there.
  • Could anyone tell be about it?
  • Is it at least correct?
  • : I seem to have understood the meaning: "based on".
  • Both of these seem definitely substandard to me.
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Hi,

I just met this phrase, and tried looking it up in an on-line dictionary, but it wasn't there.

Could anyone tell be about it? Is it at least correct?

P.S.: I seem to have understood the meaning: "based on".
Both of these seem definitely substandard to me.

Actually, as a further point, I feel the same way about any use of '.
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omit the "of". The sentence will remain the same; "I jumped off of the horse" is the same as "I jumped off the horse". "Off of" has become part of descriptive English, where it seems OK, but is really slang.

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