Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:42 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> What you can't do in
> English is say something like: "I went the house in." "Went in" is a
> verb phrase that has a preposition that's functioning sort of like an
> adverb.
Hunh? If anything, the ungrammaticalness of that sentence *proves* that
"in" is a true preposition. Adverbs can be moved to the end like that,
"I ran to the house quickly", but prepositions MUST precede their
object, unless that object is fronted, as in questions.
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