The manner in which it was arrived

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> This example intrigued me:
>
>> Though I agree: it would be hard to misread this in the context it appears [in].
>> (Derek Wykoff, comment 3/23/11 on Facebook)
>
> The omission of the duplicate "in" doesn't sound wrong to me, although
> it does in this similar example:
>
> ...taking place in the same gym that Integrity, along with all the
> other groups, had displays [in] during General Synod.
> (card from Chris Ambidge of 5/9/10, about an evening of square
> dancing at Brock University)
>
> I note that the first example above is not a that/where example.

that's right.  but it is a zero/where example.

arnold

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