come from vs. come of, with regards to results

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CalifJim

#135635 Fri, 09 Sep 05 06:48 PM

Re: gray. I tried to edit it and change it but no luck.
Oh, oh! You broke it now!!! Sad [:(]

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Anonymous

#155504 Sat, 05 Nov 05 10:06 PM

As a British person I would be quite happy with "come from" for general use.

However I loathe "with regards to results".

It should be "with regard to results". "With regards to" means "with compliments to".

"With regard to your father..." and

"With regards to your father..."

have two totally different connotations.

"Come off" in your face"???

:-))

Keith

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Anonymous

#178492 Tue, 03 Jan 06 02:21 PM

As you seem to be a language purist (which is good ;-) ), you may be interested in this:

'Again, thanks in advance for your time, help, and monetary donations. Oh, wait, not the right place to ask for the LAST. Sorry.'

should be

'Again, thanks in advance for your time, help, and monetary donations. Oh, wait, not the right place to ask for the LATTER. Sorry.'

No pun intended!

Good luck

Rikkert

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Anonymous

#318736 Tue, 23 Jan 07 08:38 AM

Well, what about in the context of someone "coming of age"?

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CalifJim

#318998 Tue, 23 Jan 07 09:23 PM

coming of age is different. This thread was mostly concerned with the prepositional verb come of, where of goes with come. In come of age, the verb is just come. The of doesn't go with come. The of goes with age. of age means old enough, and to come of age means to become old enough.

CJ

CalifJim

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Anonymous

#408894 Fri, 24 Aug 07 07:13 PM

Afriad not Rikkert, "latter" refers to the last mentioned of two things. It is not correct to use "latter" when more than one thing has been listed (e.g. time [1], help [2], monetary donations [3]).

Anonymous