I'll add a third possibility to what Michael suggested for how to deal w/ the prepositions at the end of "While he is there, he learns to fish for other things than fish." "other" is and adjective for "things," which is the object of the preposition "for." I see "than" as a preposition (roughly meaning "besides") with "fish" as its object. The entire prepositional phrase "than fish" would thus be modifying "things"--semantically, the phrase restricts the meaning of "things." Larry Beason Eastern Washington University