Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Here's a sentence to look at.
And here's another sentence to think about.
And here's a sentence to wrestle with.
And here's a sentence to bang your head against.

But your statement "wh-sentences break all the rules" is nonsensical,
unless you're talking about rules of prescriptive grammar formulated
expressly for simple declarative sentences....

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Charles wrote:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Charles wrote:
> > > We never end sentences with prepositions, but with adverbs.
> >
> > Sure we do, our English teachers may berate us for it, but we do it
> > anyways.  "What are you looking at?", for instance, "that's what I'm
> > talking about" (how the heck are you supposed to adjust that, praytell?
> > "that's the thing about which I'm talking"???)
>
> Any sentence with a "wh"-word in it can/does break all the rules.
> Find a declarative example ... that doesn't rely on ellipsis.
>