Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxt!marcus From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: For what is grammar good? - (nf) Message-ID: <102@pyuxt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-May-84 19:59:31 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxt.102 Posted: Fri May 4 19:59:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 5-May-84 01:45:28 EDT References: <1631@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <258@unisoft.UUCP>, <1366@nlm-mcs.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 7 I think rene misses the point with such sentences as *I will not put up with that!* : that kind of expression leads us straight back to the trailing preposition problem with which we started. Secondly, how on earth do you get an infinitive (let alone a split one) out of *With this, Iwill not put up* ?? Marcus Hand (pyuxt!marcus)