Thread: "Couple" without a preposition?
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Old 12-26-2011, 04:33 PM   #55
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I use "couple" most of the time when I'm writing fiction, and it's my editor's opinion that "couple" and "couple of" are interchangeable and that either is correct; he prefers "couple".
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