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Old 03-Jul-2004, 23:38
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Default Re: Proposition (in) phrase

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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork
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Thanks tdol,

You are saying the IN phrase is used to modify the nearest event - the arraignment - as in 1 below:

1. President Bush viewed a replay of Saddham Hussein's arraignment in Baghdad.


BMO
Prepositional phrases can be tricky. Absent other context, your first original sentence could be read two ways.
Aha, that is what I am afraid of, that it could be that President Bush, while he was in Bagdad, viewed a replay of the arraignment happened somewhere, or that President Bush, in somewhere, viewed a replay of the arraignment happened in Baghdad.

I saw the first one on CCN's ticker tape (how do you call this?) on TV.

Thanks.

BMO
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