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On the Origin of Had Rather Go and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions
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.
322 pages, Paperback
Published August 13, 2009
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