Re: [tied] Dative Case.

Absolutely. "Up" is a "converb" (part of the phrasal verb "bring up"), and "out of" is only orthographically two words (unless you choose to spell it "outa", of course). Latin/Greek grammatical terms are terribly misleading. The fact that prepositions are called "PRE-positions" is what the superstition that a preposition is not something to end a sentence with springs from ;)

Piotr

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--- In cybalist@......, "petegray" <petegray@......> wrote: > I collect sentences. Here's one of my favourites, ending with 5 > prepositions: > "What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?" Not quite. Here, "up" does not govern a noun and seems to me to be acting as an adverb, not as a preposition. Also, to me "out of" seems to be one preposition here, not two.