Talk:Common English usage misconceptions/Archive 2: Difference between revisions

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:::::Now that the archiving has occurred, I see that the Guidelines section that opened the page is no longer there. We probably need to make that "sticky". [[User:Mr swordfish|Mr. Swordfish]] ([[User talk:Mr swordfish|talk]]) 01:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

:::::: <strike>Good point. I'll see about doing that.</strike> Done. --[[User:0x0077BE|0x0077BE]] ([[User talk:0x0077BE|talk]]) 01:57, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

== Bizarre entry ==

A previous user had hidden the following text, commenting--sagely, I think--that "this needs to be re-written to be more understandable, or removed. Perhaps better examples would help, assuming this entire entry is not merely a hoax."

{{bq|'''Misconception:''' ''All phrases in speech that include a preposition are considered to be prepositional phrases''. This misconception originates from a misunderstanding of the word "preposition".{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} For a complement to be defined as a preposition, the word must be positioned before the other parts of speech in the phrase; e.g., "I walked home '''from the park'''". An [[adpositional phrase]], on the other hand, represents all complements of a phrase that the prepositional phrase is a subset of. [[Preposition and postposition|Circumpositions and postpositions]] also fall under the adposition category.}}

I've gone ahead and removed it, given its unsourcedness, its pedantry, and its (as far as I can tell) total irrelevance and lack of notability. Made me chuckle, though.--[[User:Lemuellio|Lemuellio]] ([[User talk:Lemuellio|talk]]) 04:49, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

: Ouch ... now that I read the above, I notice how mean it sounds in print. My sincere apologies to the writer of the entry!--[[User:Lemuellio|Lemuellio]] ([[User talk:Lemuellio|talk]]) 04:52, 8 January 2013 (UTC)