Re: [tied] Dative Case.

From: petegray
Message: 7421
Date: 2001-05-30

> > "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.

Of course. That's the fault with Winston Churchill's famous quote "This is
the sort of thing up with which I will not put." The allleged grammatical
rule makes no distinction, in the way that you are rightly doing.

Peter