The manner in which it was arrived
Tom Zurinskas
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Wed Aug 3 22:25:22 UTC 2011
I think one could keep the in in in the context that it's in in my opinion.
Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> How exactly would where fit in?
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> I think the duplication of the "in" sounds wrong, even if it is
> grammatically correct, and often the ears have it.
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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:
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> >>> Though I agree: it would be hard to misread this in the context it appears [in].
> >>> (Derek Wykoff, comment 3/23/11 on Facebook)
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> >> The omission of the duplicate "in" doesn't sound wrong to me, although
> >> it does in this similar example:
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> >> ...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)
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> >> I note that the first example above is not a that/where example.
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> > that's right. but it is a zero/where example.
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> > arnold
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