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...


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