Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation
Specialty Expressions: Needless Prepositions
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Needless prepositions | Tips from 1870 | 1: Usage: Needless Prepositions. Prepositions, like other parts of speech that contribute nothing to the meaning, should not be suffered to cumber the sentence. 2: Where am I at? Where is my book at? I went there at about noon. In what latitude is Chicago in? Where are you going to? Take your hat off of the table. Where has James been to? They offered to Caesar a crown. This is a subject of which I intended to speak about (omit of or about, but not both). She has a sister of ten years old. Leap in with me into this angry flood. 3: The older writers employed the useless for in such expressions as, What went ye out for to see? The apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. Source: Slips of Speech. | |
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