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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 98.1 | | NUHAVN::CANTOR | | Wed Sep 18 1985 18:31 | 9 |
| As the little girl said to her father when he attempted to read her a story
she didn't like from the book he had just brought from downstairs,
Daddy, why did you bring the book that I did not want to be read
to out of up for?
1 2 3 4 5
Dave C.
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| 98.2 | | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | | Thu Sep 19 1985 08:08 | 9 |
| Re .1:
Is "out" an adverb in that sentence? In describing "out" as an adverb,
Merriam-Webster's _Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary_, 1976, provides several
examples, two of which are useful to us: "went out into the garden" and "out to
lunch".
-- edp
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| 98.3 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Thu Sep 19 1985 09:47 | 6 |
| Well, Cantor's sentence is indeed the one I was thinking of.
However, now that I consider Postpischel's question, I believe "out of" is
one preposition, not two, so the sentence only has four.
/eric
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| 98.4 | | VIKING::FLEISCHER | | Thu Sep 19 1985 11:42 | 10 |
| re .0:
> Can you give a sentence ENDING with five prepositions that makes sense ?
How does one define "make sense"?
I've read and heard a lot of awkward, ungrammatical, and even non-sentence
expressions that succeeded in conveying their message nevertheless.
Bob Fleischer
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| 98.5 | | NUHAVN::CANTOR | | Fri Sep 20 1985 01:37 | 14 |
| Re .2 and .3
Well, yes, 'out' is an adverb in that sentence, and I knew that when I posted
it, but I knew what Osman was looking for. I'll bet that if you walk up
to any J. Random person and ask, "What part of speech is 'out?'", the random
will answer, "A preposition, of course." ^^^^^^^^^^
Note clumsy,
Only picky people would say that it depends upon how it's used. but gender-
free construct
to avoid use
of offensive
personal
pronoun.
Dave C.
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| 98.6 | Alternate form: Australia | ELMER::LEVITIN | Sam Levitin | Mon Mar 03 1986 22:50 | 11 |
| If you will permit other words that can appear as
prepositions in other forms, the sentence can be made to
appear as though it had 8 prepositions:
Daddy, why did you bring the book that I did not want to be read
to out of about Down Under up for?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Sam
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| 98.7 | No "out" prep in Europe | ECCGY4::BARTA | Gabriel Barta/ESPRIT/Intl Eng/Munich | Mon Jun 23 1986 10:35 | 20 |
| East of the pond, the discussion about whether "out" is an adverb
loses most of its point. Over here, "out" is always an adverb; for
example, "out the window" is not English English at all. The nearest
is "outside" -- as in "outside the door". In the U.S.A., both "out
the window" and "out of the window" exist; over here, only the latter.
Also, and here I'm being picky, as always (but that's what this
"conference" is for, right?):
In the original sentence and variants, "why" should always have been
"what":
> Daddy, why did you bring the book that I did not want to be read
***
> to out of about Down Under up for?
***
"Why ... for" doesn't make sense, but "what ... for" does.
Gabriel.
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| 98.8 | For what...? | FNYFS::WYNFORD | | Sun Jul 06 1986 19:07 | 7 |
| And why does "what for" make more sense?
... because English and French are related....
... that is "pourquoi".
Gavin
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| 98.9 | | SUPER7::GUTHRIE | Eschew obfuscation | Thu Sep 01 1988 23:59 | 2 |
| Maybe this the note which I should have copied my reply 11.67
down to. Nigel.
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