Timeline for I have no money to buy a bed [with]
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 14:54 | vote | accept | JK2 | ||
| May 7, 2015 at 3:19 | history | bounty ended | JK2 | ||
| May 5, 2015 at 8:12 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @JK2 Apologies for the terrible punctuation and phrasing above. It should be: And the comment which I left, in reply to Araucaria's comment made a day ago, does not satisfy you? | |
| May 5, 2015 at 5:20 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @JK2 Just to be absolutely clear my stating that "to buy (something) with money" is "tautological" and underneath my answer the comment which I left (over a day ago) that answered Araucaria's question does not satisfy you. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 4:26 | comment | added | Prem | @JK2 , Done ; Incorporated comments into the answer. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 4:23 | history | edited | Prem | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 5, 2015 at 4:11 | comment | added | JK2 | @Prem. Thanks for the comment, which is exactly what I meant by "an exception". So it seems that the meaning of "money" is the culprit that triggers such an exception. If so, that may be the answer I was looking for. If you could edit your answer to incorporate what you said in your comment, I might as well award the bounty. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 3:53 | comment | added | Prem | @JK2 , agreed. Depending on weather the preposition is included or not, the two sentences (while being grammatically correct) will have two slightly different meanings, so most of my examples require the last word to completely convey the intended meaning. In the case of the fourth example, the preposition may be dropped, without much change in conveyed meaning, because money is usually used for buying things with. Hence, native speakers will have the tendency to drop it, I guess. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 3:38 | comment | added | Prem | @Mari-LouA , agreed. I feel ,"with whom" probably sounds "pompous" because "whom" is itself going out of fashion, though that is only a guess. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 1:54 | comment | added | JK2 | @Prem: Good examples. Whether you want to call it grammar or something else, don't you think that there is a tendency amongst native speakers (at least AmE speakers) to drop the "with" from your fourth example, perhaps more so than to drop the prepositions from your third, fifth, sixth and seventh examples? | |
| May 4, 2015 at 19:48 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | None of those examples with the preposition at the end sound pompous. But placing the preposition with its pronoun, e.g. "I have no friend with whom to share a bed" can sound ‘pompous’ = very formal :) (It's the whom which many find objectionable/pompous nowadays) | |
| May 4, 2015 at 10:06 | history | edited | Prem | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2015 at 10:01 | history | answered | Prem | CC BY-SA 3.0 |