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Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 17:52
Sally Caves wrote:

> What I was trying to do was justify Charles' remark that prepositions > can have a shade of adverbial sense to them.
Thank you. I'm sure they (prepositions and a certain class of adverbs) are very closely related.
> My original comment > was that there's a certain ambiguity as to whether the preposition > belongs to the verb it goes with or the object it goes with. Which > is why it can be put at the end after the verb or at the beginning > with the fronted locative:
That's exactly what I should have meant.
> Sally--bold moves from a non-linguist.
How many stories would ever get written if heros were overly cautious?