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From: stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Using a preposition to end a sentence up with
Message-ID: <214@hou2g.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 09:51:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 09:51:24 1984
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I liked Dave Sherman's 6-prepositions-at-the-end sentence but he had
to carefully diagram it for me before I could understand what it meant.
For the benefit of others who couldn't understand it either, I've
translated it into a clearer and better structured language - C.


	{ What
            { did you throw
                { that book
                    { I wanted to be read to out of }
	            { about Down Under }
                }
              out
            }
          for?
        }
	

                                                       Jim