{"id":12397,"date":"2009-09-14T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/a-punctilio-anent-the-post-immediately-preceding\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:22:29","slug":"a-punctilio-anent-the-post-immediately-preceding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/a-punctilio-anent-the-post-immediately-preceding\/","title":{"rendered":"A Punctilio Anent the Post Immediately Preceding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/09\/on-being-impacted.html\">just wrote<\/a>, quite consciously, &quot;There are expressions whose currency is due to no good reason . . .&quot; Strictly correct would have been, &quot;There are expressions the currency of which is due to no good reason . . . .&quot;&#0160;&#0160; Since &#39;whose&#39; is the possessive form of the personal pronoun &#39;who,&#39; it ought not&#0160; be used when the antecedent denotes an inaminate referent.&#0160; Or at least that is a rule purists will obey.&#0160; It is&#0160; a trade-off between strict correctness and stiltedness.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In the very next sentence I have &quot;you can be sure&quot; for the strictly correct &quot;one can be sure.&quot;&#0160; It is a similar trade-off.&#0160; Do you want a tone that is formal or familiar?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The main thing, I suppose, is that a good writer writes consciously, aware of the rules, but breaking them when it serves his purpose. Split the infinite, begin with a conjunction, end with a preposition&#0160;&#0160;if &#0160;it gives your sentence the flow and feel you desire.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote, quite consciously, &quot;There are expressions whose currency is due to no good reason . . .&quot; Strictly correct would have been, &quot;There are expressions the currency of which is due to no good reason . . . .&quot;&#0160;&#0160; Since &#39;whose&#39; is the possessive form of the personal pronoun &#39;who,&#39; it ought not&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/a-punctilio-anent-the-post-immediately-preceding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Punctilio Anent the Post Immediately Preceding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}