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?
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Looks OK to me.
What is supposed to be questionable about it?
-- Doug Wilson
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