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In the ad, the voice-over ends a sentence with a PREPOSITION!

“show the world what they are capable OF”

How would you have re-worked it?

20 posted on 09/27/2012 12:12:15 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Oratam

“Show the world what they can DO.”

To use the preposition is its grammatically correct position would be somewhat awkward, so it would be better just to re-word it.

I am not usually picky, but we ARE talking about an institution of “Higher learning”. That was the irony.


29 posted on 09/27/2012 6:26:42 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: Oratam

Is “doing” or “being” a preposition of with which I will not put?


32 posted on 09/27/2012 7:30:21 PM PDT by rabidralph
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