RE: Grammar question: where to find the document?

Subject: RE: Grammar question: where to find the document?
From: "Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
To: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:36:14 -0700

Ned Bedinger wrote:

> My mind grasps 'to' (when the cabbie asks "Where to?") as a
> preposition .... But if you try to complete the question
> "Where to?" with an object of the preposition, you get
> awkward broken English. The only logical way to complete it
> is as an infinitive ("Where to go?")

Really? Good thing the cabbie didn't ask "What for?"

-Andrew

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