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 |
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 noun | TOPDOC::SLOANE | Wed Dec 10 1986 13:42 | 10 | |
"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 | |||||
286.2 | See note 98.* in this conference. | DECNA::CANTOR | Dave C. | Thu Dec 11 1986 00:00 | 0 |