a question: >Where did you put your keys down? >Where did you put your keys down at? >Where did you put your keys at? >Where did you put your keys? >Who were you talking to? (This isn't about who(m).) >To whom were you talking? > >By exploring the injunction against sentence-final prepositions, >they learn something about how to solve problems of grammar. Of >course, they can't do this without some knowledge of the content >of grammar, and this is where the many varied and sometimes >conflicting approaches to grammar become a problem. Yes. I'm curious about how knowledge of grammar as a formal or functional system -- a bounded system outside of a social context, can help a student to identify possibly acceptable sentences in the options presented above. How would different ATEG-ers do this? Judy To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/