On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:06:41 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:35:51 am walt wrote:
>> ... >> My old 7th grade English teacher would now rap you on your knuckles >> with a ruler, shouting "Antecedent! Antecedent!" > Antecedent? As in, "A preceding occurrence or cause or event", and > similar definitions? I don't understand. Did your teacher suffer from > Tourette's Syndrome, causing her (him?) to yell out irrelevant words at > awkward moments? Well, if I spent my life in a room filled with my 7th grade class I'd be shouting words too, but not those words. 4. (Gram.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. [1913 Webster] > [...] >> (Oh crap, now my old teacher >> would whack my knuckles for ending a sentence with a preposition.) > > I hope you would say, "Listen up you old biddy, if ending sentences with > prepositions was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, to say > nothing of Winston Churchill and the Queen herself, it's good enough for > me." > > http://www.dailywritingtips.com/go-ahead-put-that-preposition-at-the- end/ > http://grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2.html > http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/ling009.html Still, it was a practice up with which she did not put. I see that in my last reply to Duncan I typed "it's" to indicate the possessive. One more whack on the knuckles for me. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
