My response is also a little delayed.  There are two constructions easily confused: phrasal verb, prepositional object.  "Lead" is one of those verbs that may take two objects and one of them is introduced with the preposition "to."  Some phrasal verbs may also take a prepositional object.  There is also a prepositional object in "to" that is equivalent to an indirect object (without the preposition).  Their being synonymous often leads to them being confused syntactically.  Let me ask the following: Is it an indirect object when the preposition is "of"? 


I asked a question of my teacher.  "indirect object" ?

I asked her a question.  "dative object" ? "genitive object" ?


Thank you,

Bruce



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From: "Stahlke, Herbert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: modifier question
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:52:25 +0000

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

 

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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...


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