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

To: jbe who wrote (3434)	12/23/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

That's so interesting. In use, I don't have any problem knowing which prepositions follow what verbs, but I've never known before (or if I learned it in my high school Latin class I long ago forgot it) that many "prepositions" are, essentially, detached prefixes, and that therefore the verb/preposition combos may each represent, effectually, a distinct word. A verb/detached&displaced-prefix word. This is the sort of thing that must make English as a second language hell to learn.