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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

286.0. "psst, want a preposition?" by REGENT::MERRILL (If you've got it, font it.) Wed Dec 10 1986 13:00

Can anyone top
Dave Sherman's 6-prepositions-at-the-end sentence, diagrammed:

	{ What
            { did you throw
                { that book
                    { I wanted to be read to out of }
	            { about Down Under }
                }
              out
            }
          for?
        }
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286.1"Down Under" is a nounTOPDOC::SLOANEWed Dec 10 1986 13:4210
    "Down Under" as you've used them are not prepositions.
                                     
    But here's (a similar one) with 6:
    
    The boy said to his father, as Dad brought a book upstairs, "Why
    did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of from
    up for?"                                                        
    
    -bs
    
286.2See note 98.* in this conference.DECNA::CANTORDave C.Thu Dec 11 1986 00:000