I lately lost a preposition

[LanDi Liu]

On Feb 6, 2008 1:03 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 1/29/2008 08:33 PM, sagehen wrote:
> >More prepositions lost; this time on The World (BBC/WGBH) news program.
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> >newsreader used the expression "agree a sthg" twice,  rendering what I'd
> >have thought an intransitive verb transitive.  A minute or two later, th
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> >American newsreader used "agree" with /to/ or /with/  or /on/  (I don't
> >remember which as we usually do. Is this prepositionless "agree" now the
> >norm in Britain?
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> I just wrote, in an email message but I would probably also in a
> letter, "I would want to make any agreed changes myself."  And I'm in
> America.


That's an adjectival use of "agreed", so totally different; it has no object
so it's not transitivized.

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