Re: Re: Wiseacres Anonymous

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Timework Web wrote:
>
>  For example what is the relationship between the
> preposition "in", the verb believe and the term God?

It's been a long time since I 'studied' this (the scare quotes reflect
the lightness of that study at the time), but I believe in such cases
the "in" should be considered a part of the verb (as in the german
separable verbs) rather than a preposition. In any case, prepositions
are wildcards in any language: you must remember memorizing "idioms" in
any foreign language you studied: i.e. phrases that cannot be construed
by
looking up the definitions of their individual words.

Carrol