Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

place to live

4 views
Skip to first unread message

Eamer

unread,
Jan 18, 2003, 1:02:02 PM1/18/03
to
Why do people just say "place to live" when "place to live in" would
be gramatically better?

Also, does anyone know similar cases?

Eamer

Skitt

unread,
Jan 18, 2003, 3:23:09 PM1/18/03
to
Eamer wrote:

Hmm, you have to live someplace.
--
Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geocities.com/opus731/
I speak English well -- I learn it from a book!
-- Manuel (Fawlty Towers)

Don Phillipson

unread,
Jan 19, 2003, 10:45:14 AM1/19/03
to
"Eamer" <ea...@digitalme.com> wrote in message
news:7ad0ef41.03011...@posting.google.com...

> Why do people just say "place to live" when "place to live in" would
> be gramatically better?

It is normal for spoken English to omit words
that are truly redundant, i.e. are never needed
for understanding. Most obviously we now
say Radio instead of Radio Receiver, and even
Transistor for Transistor Radio Receiver.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
dphil...@trytel.com.com.com.less2


Richard Maurer

unread,
Jan 19, 2003, 6:06:26 PM1/19/03
to
<< [Eamer]

Why do people just say "place to live" when "place to live in" would
be gramatically better?
[end quote] >>

The boundaries are rather amorphous. We continue to live there
even if we go out of the house, out of the yard, beyond the city limits,
beyond the reach of the familiar radio stations.
It has aspects of a base as well as an enclosing space.
This seems equally true whether you are talking about a building or a town.

-- ---------------------------------------------
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


0 new messages