What is the difference between these two sentences if any?
prognosticate as to this election's outcome.
prognosticate this election's outcome.
Prognosticate 'as to' ...
Posted by dehardheaded · October 27, 2008 · 2 replies
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No difference. try searching on Google. "prognosticate" can be used either just with a direct object, or with a prepostion like "on" or "about" or - as here - "as to".
More interesting to me is "this election's outcome" rather than "the outcome of this election". What's the explanation of the possibility of using the 's possessive there ?
dehardheaded
OP
Well I think theoretically it must not (or at least ought not) be used that way, but I see that people are using this form, widely.
An article in NY Times that uses this phrase. <---