Comments on: Don’t Overdo “Do”

By: JC Hewitt

JC Hewitt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:41:52 +0000

Why not “banks lend?”

By: Endora

Endora — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:31:36 +0000

‘We do loans’ – a reproachful term usage implicates insensibly to the actual activity being performed. Do what with loans? You may say, “we provide loans to those in preference of complete financial support,” or “we issue loans to holders of acceptable credit references”. It seems semi-finished with a 3 word line! Loan schemes would be absolutely thrown to anonymity.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Capt. Carl,
Actually, I would have no qualms about ending a sentence with a preposition, but what I’ve done here is use an elliptical construction.

“At least, they’re supposed to [make loans].”

By: David in San Antonio

David in San Antonio — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:17:53 +0000

I remember the rich (to me) wife of a fellow grad student, way-back-when, announcing at a party that she and Mike would be “doing Europe” that summer. Obviously, that usage stuck with me, because that was in the ’60s.

And along the same lines as what Barbara wrote, my then 10-year-old daughter and I had the same sort of game. I would say, “I done that good,” and she would say, “No, you did that well, Daddy!” And we would laugh.

By: Capt. Carl

Capt. Carl — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:35:34 +0000

Did “Daily Writing Tips” just end a sentence with a preposition?
It was the last sentence: “At least, they’re supposed to.”