I’m just picking up on this thread after being gone for a month, so please excuse me if I cover already covered ground. The term “phrasal verb” covers a range of verb-particle constructions that vary in their behavior. The best informal treatment of seen of this is in Mark Lester’s Grammar in the Classroom. I haven’t seen the new edition, so I don’t know how he handles it there, but the older edition’s treatment was lucid and pretty complete. Herb From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Chorazy Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: modifier question 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<tel:973.616.6000> 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/ -- John Chorazy English III Honors, AP Lit Advisor, Panther Press Pequannock Township High School 973.616.6000 Noli Timere 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/