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Re: ATEG Digest - 29 Nov 2015 to 18 Dec 2015 (#2015-68)
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Scott Catledge <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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The word "but" can function as a conjunction or a preposition.
Scott Catledge
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> Date:    Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:07:28 +0000
> From:    Scott Woods <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: grammar question
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> Dear List,
> How would you analyze the word "but" in the following sentence?
> Our sisters and our brothers, but not our parents, went with our cousins and our grandparents to the play.
> It see to work more like the "and" in this sentence:
> Our sisters and our brothers, and not our parents, went with our cousins.
> It seems to work less like the but in this sentence:
> Everyone but our parents went with our cousins.
> How would you explain the distinction?
> Thanks,
> Scott Woods
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> Date:    Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:52:53 -0800
> From:    Karl Hagen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: grammar question
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> I'd call the first "but" a coordinator and the second "but" a preposition.
> 
> The argument over whether "but" is a preposition or a conjunction was a 
> major point of contention among 19th- and early 20th-century 
> grammarians, but if you try to be absolutist and insist that it can only 
> be one or the other you'll get tangled up into syntactic knots. It's 
> best just to accept that, like many other words, "but" can function in 
> more than one lexical category.
> 
> On 12/18/2015 9:07 AM, Scott Woods wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > How would you analyze the word "but" in the following sentence?
> >
> > Our sisters and our brothers, *but* not our parents, went with our 
> > cousins and our grandparents to the play.
> >
> > It see to work more like the "and" in this sentence:
> >
> > Our sisters and our brothers, *and* not our parents, went with our 
> > cousins.
> >
> > It seems to work less like the but in this sentence:
> >
> > Everyone *but* our parents went with our cousins.
> >
> > How would you explain the distinction?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott Woods
> >
> >
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