| 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?
}
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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| 286.2 | See note 98.* in this conference. | DECNA::CANTOR | Dave C. | Thu Dec 11 1986 00:00 | 0 |