Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would expect "throughout the year" to be adverbial or adjectival. Here
it's a noun, and looks wrong. Given the availability of alternatives
("newspapers published throughout the year", "from the entire year"), I
would rewrite it.
DanG


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> A friend has questioned the following sentence I have crafted, as
> being if not ungrammatical at least awkward:
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> "It is clear from the above that he read issues of these newspapers
> from throughout the year; these articles [that he has discussed] come
> from every month."
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> What say the prescriptivists on this list?  And as well, the free-thinkers?
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> Joel
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