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

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