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Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 1:55
Ed Heil wrote:

> 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.
OK, you win.
> 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....
Well, I tried ... Interrogatives (in English) involve all sorts of weird "movement rules". Hmm, that's what you're doing up there. Hmm.