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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