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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (2916)	6/11/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 4711

Penni, I have Fowler's "The King's English" (1906), and the Second Edition of "Modern English Usage," both of which are more Fowleresque than the Third Edition. I really MUST plant my camellia bush and my lace-cap hydrangea before they perish in their plastic containers, but a cursory look shows me that the "old" Fowler was still holding the line. His major concern seems to be to clear up some ambiguities. For example: I love you more than him. This means: I love you more than I love him. Or: I love you more than he. This means: I love you more than he loves you. At the same time, he insists that the tendency to turn "than" into a preposition when the meaning does not warrant it, "should be resisted." And as one of the examples of this deplorable tendency, he cites the following sentence: ...Lindore would be more eloquent than me... Now, back to the bushes!! Joan