I lately lost a preposition

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/5/2008 01:17 PM, LanDi Liu wrote:
>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.
> > Brit
> > >newsreader used the expression "agree a sthg" twice,  rendering what I'd
> > >have thought an intransitive verb transitive.  A minute or two later, th
> > e
> > >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.
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>That's an adjectival use of "agreed", so totally different; it has no object
>so it's not transitivized.

I wondered.  Still, isn't it an alternative to "any agreed-to changes"?

Joel

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