On the Origin of "Had Rather Go" and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions / / Fitzedward Hall.
Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Analecta Gorgiana
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (42 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY |
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| Summary: | Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781463221379 9783111024141 9783110663037 |
| DOI: | 10.31826/9781463221379 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Fitzedward Hall. |