[78-L] Grammatically incorrect [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Actually, I don't think they're prepositions at all -- more like verbal
prefixes as in German, modifying the meaning of the main verb....   FWIW.

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:

> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Grammatically incorrect
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 7:16 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
> > There are some errors up with which I will not
> put!  (Was always
> > taught never to end a sentence with a preposition...
> but sometimes,
> > it's unavoidable...)
> >
> As I recall, there is an old witticism on this subject
> which is supposedly
> a quote of Winston Churchill...?! The line itself, however,
> seems to have
> departed my aging mind/memory...?!
> 
> OTOH, there IS the classic line supposedly uttered by a
> young children
> in regards to his/her/its "bedtime story"...?!
> 
> "Why did you bring a book upstairs that I didn't want to be
> read to out
> of up for?!"
> 
> Then again, the whole thing MAY be a mis-interpretation of
> a complaint
> from radical women's groups...which actually cautioned
> against ending a
> sentence with a prOposition...?!
> 
> Finally, were I to be unceremoniously "flung into the
> can"...and then 
> offered
> an early release, logically ending in "OUT"...I would be
> quite literally 
> "ending
> a sentence with a preposition...?!"
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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