Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Charles wrote:

> OK, you win.
That is extremely gracious of you!

> Well, I tried ... Interrogatives (in English) involve all sorts of
> weird "movement rules". Hmm, that's what you're doing up there. Hmm.
"Movement rules" only exist in theories which posit a separate deep
structure, related via transformation to a surface structure.  Many
linguistic theories don't.

But to return to your original point, it's a very fine line between
adverbs and prepositions; indeed, one could call prepositions
"adjectives/adverbs which govern an object," and when prepositions
stand at the end of a sentence they start looking awfully adverbial!

Ed Heil ------ edheil@postmark.net
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