Prepositions and the Vampires of ‘The Twilight Saga’: Beyond the Prescriptive
Although the joke “prepositions are not words to end sentences with” comments on a prescriptive grammar proscription for prepositions, prepositions fulfill a variety of functions in a number of positions. Belonging to a grammatical category consisting of a small closed set of words (DeCarrico 2000: 121), prepositions show no inflectional variation (Huddleston 1984: 336). Most […] More