| 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 |