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Thread #17649   Message #171499
Posted By: Mark Cohen
01-Feb-00 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Coming Clear about all the song requests
Subject: RE: BS: Coming Clear about all the song requests
Amos, I'm sure Mbo is being too kind to tell you, but "flowery" is part of the compound object of the preposition "to," and not part of an infinitive. Weren't you, Mbo? I often tell people that I have a malformation in my brain that causes me to proofread automatically (spelling and grammar, of course). Not the kind of thing that's a big hit at parties, but what can you do?

You all know, don't you, about the time Winston Churchill ended a sentence with five prepositions? He was but a child, and his mother had come upstairs with a bedtime storybook that was not the one he had requested. Little Winnie cried, "Mother, what did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"

Aloha
Mark (closet grammarian)