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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
The below link
http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/prospective-students/prospective-student-events/visit-us-in-april.html
... we ask that you RSVP for your date of choice at the below link.
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Is the below link grammatically correct? Wouldn't it correct to say "the link below"?
... we ask that you RSVP for your date of choice at the below link.
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Is the below link grammatically correct? Wouldn't it correct to say "the link below"?
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we ask that you RSVP your date of choice by using the link below. " Yes, even at Berkeley the students and faculty often massacre the English language.
- we ask that you RSVP your date of choice by using the link below.
- " Yes, even at Berkeley the students and faculty often massacre the English language.
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"...we ask that you RSVP your date of choice by using the link below."
Yes, even at Berkeley the students and faculty often massacre the English language.
Yes, even at Berkeley the students and faculty often massacre the English language.
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Either way is grammatically correct, technically. The way they wrote it is just exceedingly cumbersome and irritating. It's Hinglish slang.
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HUBLOTWouldn't it correct to say "the link below"?It would. In my opinion, "above" and "below" follow the noun in better styles of English.
Note that Google's Ngram Viewer cannot even find a single example of "the below paragraph" or "the below sentence" in a search of English texts from 1800 to 2000, whereas "the paragraph below" and "the se
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