On the Origin of Had Rather Go and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions

Fitzedward Hall

On the Origin of  Had Rather Go  and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Gorgias Press
Country
United States
Published
13 August 2009
Pages
42
ISBN
9781607245391

On the Origin of Had Rather Go and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions

Fitzedward Hall

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.

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