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Participles Becoming Prepositions--Some Arcane Information for Editors
A presentation that accompanies the paper of the same name at http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~mpringle/UsingPaper.rtf.
Pringle, Mary Margaret. STCTC (2001). Presentations>Editing>Grammar>Minimalism
#20150
Participles Becoming Prepositions--Some Arcane Information for Editors
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.
Pringle, Mary Margaret. STCTC (2001). Presentations>Editing>Grammar>Minimalism
