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Notes & asides.(Letter to the Editor)
* Dear Mr. Buckley: Mr. Sparling's letter in Notes & Asides (May 17) stirred my thoughts regarding Peter Robinson's reference to "the mounting wave of dependent clauses that ends the second sentence" (in the example from your Fall of the Berlin Wall).
If I remember correctly the fine series of public-school language-arts teachers to whom I was assigned, "in the square-set resolution of their heads, the grimness of their expressions, and their disembodied attention to duty" is a single prepositional phrase with three objects of the preposition. What shall we call them? Perhaps three object phrases. (I clearly remember a classmate's being required to recite 25 times: "Every little preposition takes an object.")
My dictionary and my grammar book state that a clause has a subject and a predicate. But perhaps that definition has gone the way of so much else upon which we used to depend.
Kindest regards,
Richard Nazarenus
Newberry Springs, Calif.
* Dear Mr. Buckley: Though I run a lumberyard in the deep South and thus am no grammarian, I nearly shot scalding coffee out of my nose this morning when I read in "The Week" (May 3) that: "There but for the grace of God, went us."
- TWENTY YEARS FROM BERLIN WALL
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 10, 2009 700+ words
...I thought. And the Berlin Wall was nothing if not imposing...East Germans scaling the Berlin Wall in 1989, my heart swelled...required to topple the Berlin Wall; steady pressure from...say, thank you - and God bless."For more information...
- The Berlin Wall, 20 years later.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Seek, Michael November 9, 2009 700+ words
...material used to build the Berlin Wall, it was the motive underlying...anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, people are celebrating...is the visible result of God's law of good, which...the fundamental idea that God has given His creation...
- The horrors of the Stasi's East Germany.(Stasiland: True Stories from Behind...
- Magazine article from: Reason Garvin, Glenn January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, by Anna Funder, London...112 miles high. (And God knows how much material...final days before the Berlin Wall fell, the Stasi destroyed...Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. "Everyone suspected...
- Clinton's `Floating Berlin Wall'
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post William Raspberry February 14, 1994 700+ words
...plucking out of the sea and sending back to God knows what fate. And the frustration...do flee, "they are met by a floating Berlin Wall that forces their return to the very...for himself. Clinton's "floating Berlin Wall" intercepts them in Haitian waters...
- REP. BOEHNER: FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 'RESOUNDING VICTORY FOR FREEDOM'
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 10, 2009 700+ words
...statement on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: "The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a resounding victory for freedom and human...a revolution inspired by leaders whose faith in God and commitment to freedom changed the world. Years...
- Ex-leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall.
- News wire article from: Aljazeera.net October 31, 2009 700+ words
...instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall have marked the 20th year of the...had too long been deprived of their God-given rights. "The Wall could...where the Wall stood from 1961. The Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War, was...
- PREACHING CHRISTIAN IDEALS GRAHAM RALLY AT BERLIN WALL.(Religion)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 10, 1990 700+ words
...and began their marches." However, he said, after the Berlin Wall came down last Nov. 9, a sort of lethargy has come over...against human nature. People want the freedom to believe in God, to worship God." CAPTION(S): PHOTO PHOTO
- Easy riders straddle the Berlin Wall
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DAVID LANCASTER September 15, 1994 700+ words
...cycle parts and unrivalled economy. Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 one of the most remarkable fairy tales has taken place...but the few success stories of late have all eschewed the God of performance. A Harley Davidson is as American as you get...
Source: HighBeam Research, Notes & asides.(Letter to the Editor)