Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Charles wrote:
> Any sentence with a "wh"-word in it can/does break all the rules.
> Find a declarative example ... that doesn't rely on ellipsis.
Okay, you're probably right about that, I certainly can't think of an
example of a declarative independent clause that ends with a true
preposition.  Actually, I wouldn't say that "wh"-question break all the
rules, but that they have a different set of rules, such as extraction
of the object, "You saw what" --> "What did you see?", "You are looking
at what" --> "What are you looking at?", we just tend to move the object
of the preposition, instead of the whole phrase, as Spanish (and many
other languages) does, "Piensas en que'" --> "En que' piensas?"

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