That makes sense, Dick. Thank you... maybe I was over thinking this, but it
got me questioning transitivity and ​if "adherence" as an abstraction has
the quality of being able to lead. Asking "where" of the verb was the
simplest solution.


John





On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In *Adherence leads to inhibition*, I think "to" is a preposition, rather
> than a particle in a phrasal verb.
>
> "Where does all this blind adherence to dogma lead?" "To inhibition and
> mindless obedience, if you ask me."
>
> You can't do that with a phrasal verb: "Where did you look?" "Up the
> answer."
>
> Dick Veit
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, John Chorazy <[log in to unmask]
> > wrote:
>
>> These are helpful comments and much appreciated. After Craig's reading
>> I'm looking at nominal partitives to help explain this type of
>> construction​.
>>
>> And if I may ask a look at my reading of the following sentence: *Adherence
>> leads to inhibition*. In this case, "leads to" is a phrasal verb with
>> "to" as a particle.
>>
>> Thank you again as always...
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Chorazy
>> English III Honors, AP Lit
>> Advisor, *Panther Press*
>> Pequannock Township High School
>> 973.616.6000
>>
>>
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