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What do you do with the sole purpose of annoying people?
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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But the 'of' is grammatically correct
You can find many discussions about that online, and it's basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it's not correct, hence I'm annoyed a lot of the time.
Maybe its a trick to convince people to leave out 'of' to annoy people in the future
Of the ofs that I could leave out, the ofs that I have left out in the past, and the ofs that I typically include, the ofs that I typically include are the only ofs that get noticed, but the ofs I exclude might be the most impactful ofs. Hard to say for sure.
It's accepted usage, but it's kind of illogical and doesn't add anything. If you take the 'of' out of the phrases they still make perfect sense.
(I use the 'of' myself, out of habit, as I learned to speak that way.)
That no reason remove words from semtences.