The manner in which it was arrived

[Dan Goncharoff]

How exactly would where fit in?

I think the duplication of the "in" sounds wrong, even if it is
grammatically correct, and often the ears have it.

DanG



On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> 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.
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> arnold
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