End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Feb 1997 to 2 Feb 1997
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There are 10 messages totalling 238 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. forbid. . .to? (3)
 2. The City
 3. forbid...to
 4. The City -Reply (3)
 5. "the bird"
 6. Students and "Ebonics"

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Date:  Mon, 3 Feb 1997 07:54:33 -0600
From:  "Albert E. Krahn" <krahna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MILWAUKEE.TEC.WI.US>
Subject: forbid. . .to?

Our Saturday, Feb. 1 newspaper had a Knight-Ridder News Service item which
opened with the following:

    In a decison with nationwide implications, the California Supreme Court
    has ruled that San Jose can forbid suspected gang members to engage
    in a variety of otherwise legal behavior -- from climbing fences to
wearing     beepers to hanging around together on their turf.


Here in Olde Milwaukee, we might say _forbid . . . from engaging_ but never
_forbid . . . to engage_. We prefer the forbid + participle to forbid +
infinitive.

Is this regional? Or are we in the mainstream?
Should Knight-Ridder get ridder one of their writers?

akra
Al Krahn ~ Milwaukee Area Technical College ~ 700 W. State St.
Milwaukee WI 53233 ~ 414/ W297-6519/ F297-7990
krahna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]milwaukee.tec.wi.us ~ Owner PUNCT-L, a mailing list
for discussing punctuation. [{:-},./-_(;-/)]