So, starting sentences with so No interviewee on TV or radio is able to answer a question without prefacing it with "So".
Why is it unthinkable to discuss it without prefacing everything with "of course, it's terribly traumatic, no woman enters into this lightly"?
The gun control partisans have been so beaten down over the years that they can hardly order breakfast without prefacing their remarks with "Of course people must always have the right to keep guns for hunting and self-protection".
You cannot speak about preferring the likes of Jihadi John to be tried in court without prefacing that with a plain declaration that – whatever one's qualms about the execution of a British national – the world is a better place without him.
I am never going to say "whatever" again without prefacing it, "As Ryan Lochte says at gunpoint,".
I'm no longer secure about delivering a happy message without prefacing it with, "Hey, I know life sucks and we're all garbage, totally deserving of the plagues and locusts that are obviously coming our way," and "I apologize in advance for any projectile vomiting that may be caused by my next thought, but... .. and then I'll say whatever uplifting thought that was on my mind.
He suffered from scurvy or beriberi, and with these diseases people died, so to speak, without a preface.
Though the truth or the applicability of these principles does not admit of direct proof, they are consistently confirmed by experience and, Maritain holds, cannot be denied without contradiction (Preface to Metaphysics, p. 90).
Unlike the other two books, True at First Light is without a preface "indicating the intentions of the author or dictating how he intended to have the book read".
The question is one of contraction, because I don't see how "Bachelorette's Out of Control" can be correct without "The" prefacing it.
