On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:26 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Better, of course, would be to say, "Look, lady, in that context, it's > not a preposition, it's a particle and there's nothing wrong with ending > a sentence with a particle. You are right, however, that it's wrong, a > sentence to end, a preposition with." It's true that it's perfectly normal for a particle to come at the end of a sentence, but prepositions can also come there, when their objects have been moved elsewhere. Here's an example that is ambiguous as between preposition and particle: "What did you look up?" If the answer is "the telephone number", "up" is taken to be a particle, but if the answer is "the street", "up" could be a preposition (though it's still ambiguous). -- Greg _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
