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bro? I'm not your bro, bro

a bro bro bro bro bro bro bro to the tune of a roo coo coo coo coo coo coo.

follow it by a wasssssuuuuupppp

This is incorrect.


"This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put." - W C

Concur. That's a rule from Latin that silly Victorian era grammarians tried to graft on to English. Heck, with some English verbs, the preposition is baked in, and if there is no direct object it is tortuous to try to avoid ending the sentence with the verbal preposition.

Let us take, for example, the sentence "Addicts need a safe place to shoot up." How would we move "up?" While we could say "In order to shoot up, addicts need a safe place," it sounds ridiculous and we're still ending the subordinate clause in a preposition, which the Latin rule on which the English "rule" is based would also not allow.

Isn't "up" an adverb in that sentence?

This is incorrect.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001715.html

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001702.html

No. Up by itself is a preposition. The adverbial form is upward. Also, it does not answer a question about the verb. "Where are they shooting? They are shooting 'up'." This makes no sense. That would mean that they were firing into the air, like celebratory gunfire.

"To shoot up" is a compound verb, with the prepositional addition differentiation it from the verb "to shoot." You won't find this in a lot of English grammar books influenced by Victorian-era Latinization, but it is well documented in English's main parent language, German.

In German compound verbs, the preposition is included in the verb in the infinitive form and separated and put at the end of the clause when the verb is conjugated. For example, "ziehen" is "to pull," and "um" means "around," but "umziehen" means to move (like to a new house), not "to pull around." When you conjugate it, "um" comes off and gets put at the end. Therefore if I want to say "Bob is moving to Peoria," it would be "Bob zieht nach Peoria um."

In the case of compound verbs in particular, ending a sentence with a preposition is actually more natural for English, a Germanic language, than trying not to in order to follow Latin's example.

I don't know about all that fancy foreign language stuff, but that doesn't seem to be what Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, Dictionary.com, Macmillan, or others say about English.

The first definition of 'up' is as an adverb, and the usage in those definitions fits your sentence. Those dictionaries indicate that 'up' would be an adverb modifying the verb 'shoot'. The addicts would obviously be shooting drugs 'up' into their veins.

Or, taken together as a phrasal verb, a phrasal verb can consist of a verb+adverb or verb+preposition. 'Up' can be either an adverb, preposition, or adjective. It functions as an adverb in your sentence, and does not make as much sense as a preposition in that sentence.

I agree that it's not functionally a preposition in that sentence, but it's only an adverb if we accept that it answers a question about how, where, why, etc. one shoots. It is, instead, part of , as they call it a "phrasal verb." Also, I can't see an example where "up" can be an adjective. That's really reaching, imo. How can it answer a question about a noun or pronoun?

If this nerd yappin doesn't stop I'm gonna give y'all what for

The days of good English are went.

Ok OP I’ll help u I need a poker coach anyways I’m bleeding chips like crazy these days I’ll message u one Skype <3

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The trollface did it for me.

Mainly cuz Dominic doesn't really troll, he's just an awesome guy who posts here.

btw I don't know Dominic, he's just a troll in my mind.

i totally would have expected that to be the case based on his avatar

Dominic actually *is* the most interesting man in the world!