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Participles Becoming Prepositions – Some Arcane Information for Editors

By Mary Pringle 30 January 2013 @ 8:48am Comments (2)

I wrote  a paper for a presentation at the Twin Cities STC (Society for Technical Communication) conference in 2001. I make the argument that using has become a preposition in English. I keep expecting to see the new designation in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) but not so far. Dr. Walter Turner has pointed out that having is being similarly transformed by writers of technical prose.

This is the PowerPoint that I used to present it.

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