My teacher Colette was always a stickler for precision in
language. During my long apprenticeship, her insistence to be precise came
through even in her heavily French accented English. Our use of
imprecise prepositions covers a vast area of unseen and unwitting destructive
implications that permeate our lives. As you remember from grammar school
prepositions are words that precede a noun or pronoun to show the noun’s (or
the pronoun’s) relationship to
another word in the sentence. Read more »
