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Re: Fwd: Re: Verb aspect and ellipsis
From:
Richard Badger <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 23 May 2001 09:03:14 +0100
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In my idiolect 'despite' can take noun phrase complements. An example from
COBUILD
(http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html)

Despite all these developments

Richard

Johanna Rubba wrote

> If 'despite' can behave like a preposition, why can't it take noun
> phrase complements?
>
> *Despite the weather
>
>
>

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