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

To: Janice Shell who wrote (147)	1/2/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Fogy (fogey) comes from the Scottish word "fogey". But as I don't speak it, I don't know what it means.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (147)	1/2/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Now here's one: When my daughter was two years old, I would stuff her with oatmeal and she would say: "I ate it all gone." This made perfect sense to me but for a long time I could not explain the grammar of it. Using the Quirk, Greenbaum, et. al A Grammar of Contempoary English, however, I finally found an explanation. Before I reveal it, though, I'd like to know if you can think of something similar to "I ate it all gone" that is in common usage.