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Thatkoko666 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Same preposition twice in a row.

I don't wanna get yelled at at 4 am.


I think if I omit an at

that would make it ungrammatical.

A person who's mad, yells at you not yells you.

So you get yelled at by them not yelled by them.

  

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Your thinking is sound, and your sentence is correct. It sure looks funny in black and white, though, doesn't it?

  • Your thinking is sound, and your sentence is correct.
  • It sure looks funny in black and white, though, doesn't it?
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Your thinking is sound, and your sentence is correct. It sure looks funny in black and white, though, doesn't it?

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I agree.

I'd probably put a comma after the first at.

Clive

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thatkoko666I don't wanna want to get yelled at at 4 am.

As shown. Occasionally you see the same word twice in a row where the two words are in different constituents of the sentence, and the sentence is correct. In those cases, you'll make things worse if you remove one. (Of course you might change t

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