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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Which is correct? (Preposition Question)

Which is correct?
There are a couple trees in the yard.
There are a couple of trees in the yard.
  

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Anonymous There are a couple of trees in the yard. This one is correct. Some native speakers, however, in a moment of carelessness, or sometimes as a habit of carelessness, leave out "of".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous There are a couple of trees in the yard.
  • This one is correct.
  • Some native speakers, however, in a moment of carelessness, or sometimes as a habit of carelessness, leave out "of".
  • I do not recommend doing that.
  • CJ
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AnonymousThere are a couple of trees in the yard.
This one is correct. Some native speakers, however, in a moment of carelessness, or sometimes as a habit of carelessness, leave out "of". I do not recommend doing that.

CJ
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CalifJim AnonymousThere are a couple of trees in the yard.This one is correct. Some native speakers, however, in a moment of carelessness, or sometimes as a habit of carelessness, leave out "of". I do not recommend doing that.CJ
Isn't it some native speakers of American English, that do that?
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AnonymousAmerican English
I speak American English and I live in America, so I don't know where else the 'of' of 'couple of' might be dropped. You'll have to ask someone who speaks a different variety of English if they have observed the same thing where they live. It's possible that this happens in other places in the world, but we have no proof of it so fa
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I am from England, and, for me, the omission of "of" feels distinctly American.
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