Re: Use of "from" and "to"
- From: "Don Phillipson" <e925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:42:40 -0500
"bullandbearwise" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The following seems like the natural way of writing:
"The price increased from $1.00 to $2.00."
Yet I see in the press all the time:
"The price increased to $2.00 from $1.00"
Which is correct and why?
Case 2 (TO first, then FROM) is prefered N.American
newspaper style, as documented in the Canadian
Press style book and elsewhere, preferred as more
clear than Case 1. This is not a topic of grammatical
correctness but style, e.g. house style.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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