Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Thu Jun 30 04:21:45 UTC 2011


On 6/29/2011 1:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> A friend has questioned the following sentence I have crafted, as
> being if not ungrammatical at least awkward:
>
> "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."
>
> What say the prescriptivists on this list?  And as well, the free-thinkers?
--

Looks OK to me.

What is supposed to be questionable about it?

-- Doug Wilson

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