{"id":490,"date":"2009-01-24T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/prepositions-gone-missing\/"},"modified":"2015-12-10T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:33:24","slug":"prepositions-gone-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/01\/prepositions-gone-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepositions Gone Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_PrepositionsGoneWild\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/prepositions-gone-wild\/\">Yesterday<\/a> I wrote about days that I like to label as &#8220;Prepositions Gone Wild&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today I want to discuss the complement to this: what I like to label as &#8220;Prepositions Gone Missing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I have to wonder when, where, why, and how American instruction about English prepositions went astray.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a growing trend for many Americans to <em>omit<\/em> necessary prepositions.<\/p>\n<p>And this trend seems to be consistent with my &#8220;Devolution toward Simpler&#8221; linguistic hypothesis. Omitting prepositions is simpler than including them.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Prepositions Gone Missing&#8221; label applies to any of these expressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;arrived home&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;graduated high school&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;graduated college&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;graduated university&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wrote a <a target=\"_graduatedCollege\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/he-graduated-college-last-year\/\">blog post<\/a> more than a year ago about &#8220;graduated college&#8221;. Similar discussions would apply for &#8220;graduated high school&#8221; and &#8220;graduated university&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The travel-related use of the verb &#8220;arrive&#8221; requires a preposition between the verb and the destination.<\/p>\n<p>Just as one does not &#8220;arrive the Moon&#8221; or &#8220;arrive England&#8221;, one does not &#8220;arrive home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, one &#8220;arrives <em>on<\/em> the Moon&#8221;, &#8220;arrives <em>in<\/em> England&#8221;, or &#8220;arrives <em>at<\/em> home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed any other common expressions with necessary prepositions that have been omitted? Please <a target=\"_contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a>, and I will write about them here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about days that I like to label as &#8220;Prepositions Gone Wild&#8221;. 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