The manner in which it was arrived

[Randy Alexander]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> How exactly would where fit in?
>

it would be hard to misread this in the context {where} it appears [in].


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