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Participles Becoming Prepositions – Some Arcane Information for Editors
- Author(s):
- Mary Pringle (see profile)
- Date:
- 2001
- Group(s):
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Subject(s):
- English language
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Society for Technical Communication (STC) Region 6 Conference
- Conf. Org.:
- STC
- Conf. Loc.:
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Conf. Date:
- 2 October 2001
- Tag(s):
- editing, participles, prepositions, technical communication, using
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KP7Z
- Abstract:
- In English, some participles have already become prepositions. The author noticed in her work as a technical editor that most of her writers seemed to perceive the participle using as a preposition already although it is not listed as such in the dictionary. The paper gives the evidence and rationale for making such a claim. It offers a window on written language change in progress and celebrates the language user’s ability to make the stolid dialect we call technical writing more vigorous and efficient by turning a participle into a preposition.
- Notes:
- I have also uploaded a PowerPoint file that was used to present the paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
usingpaper.pdf