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| − | *[...]everyone<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#036;">'s concerned</span> <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#603;">about</span> Industrial Disease<br />[...]<br />On ITV and BBC they <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#036;">talk</span> <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#603;">about</span> the curse<br />(Cf. Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease" [https://paroles2chansons.lemonde.fr/paroles-dire-straits/paroles-industrial-disease.html §§]) | + | *[...]everyone<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#036;">'s concerned</span> <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#603;">about</span> Industrial Disease<br /> [...]<br />On ITV and BBC they <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#036;">talk</span> <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#603;">about</span> the curse<br /><br />(Cf. Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease" [https://paroles2chansons.lemonde.fr/paroles-dire-straits/paroles-industrial-disease.html §§]) |
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Revision as of 12:24, 18 March 2020
Preposition
Introduces a subject, theme, or topic as its grammatical object.
- I don't know much about history,
[...]
don't know much about the French(that)I took.
(Cf. Sam Cook, "What a Wonderful World" §§)
- [...]everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease
[...]
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
(Cf. Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease" §§)
Particle
Used in the same way as around... as a particle indicating non-goal directed activity:
- People were milling about in the public square, waiting for the candidate to speak.
