Timeline for Prepositional phrases in sentence subjects:"The level of maturity in argument here is astounding.”
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| Aug 13, 2023 at 17:33 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | I find the wording "level of maturity" a bit strange, because the maturity of argument would do the same job more eloquently: the maturity of argument here is astounding. | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 13:17 | history | edited | livresque | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added comment by OP to clarify question
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| Aug 11, 2023 at 12:12 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 10:59 | comment | added | Stuart F | You can stick as many prepositional phrases or adverbs of place (or time) together as you like "bring it up here round the back behind the shed now" "the train went down northwards into the tunnel" etc. | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 10:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 11, 2023 at 10:05 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Collins includes 'in dispute' and M-W 'in contention' ['being argued over' sense], but neither includes 'in argument'. But I needed to check. I'm encouraged in my assumption that the sentence means 'The level of maturity which is displayed in argumentation here is astounding.' I'd use the expanded version to clarify. // the sentence corresponds therefore to 'The size of the flowers on the rhododendrons here is incredible.' I can't see where a problem would arise. | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 8:25 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
shortened overly long title
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| Aug 11, 2023 at 6:30 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 6:06 | answer | added | LPH | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 1:48 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | Are you suggesting that "here" is a prepositional phrase? If so, what definition of PP are you using? | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 0:52 | comment | added | Mike T | Prompted by this specific sentence, but more generally on the propriety of two prepositional phrases back-to-back, is in “…in argument here…,” especially since the first is explaining essence, and being applied to what comes before it (“level of maturity”), while the second directs the reader to a specific place and does not refer back in the same way to what comes before (“here”). | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 0:00 | comment | added | alphabet | Is your question whether two prepositional phrases can occur within a subject? Or is it something specific to this sentence? | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 23:57 | history | edited | Heartspring | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 22 characters in body; edited title
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| S Aug 10, 2023 at 23:44 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Aug 10, 2023 at 23:44 | history | asked | Mike T | CC BY-SA 4.0 |