Re: R: Re: "y" and "r"
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 18:14 |
Mangiat wrote:
> where is the guy he's talking to from (hey, after the recent thread
> about relative clauses I seriously doubt the correctness of this last
> one. Would this cacophonious 'to from' be allowed?)
Well, that's *almost* correct. I would say "... where the guy he's
talking to is from", subject-inversion only occurs with direct
questions. But, one could say "Where's the guy he's talking to from?"
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