# Nitpicking the BBC

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpicking-the-bbc/562889>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 4, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpicking-the-bbc/562889 "2010-12-04T01:33:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpicking-the-bbc/562889/81 "2010-12-08T20:46:18Z")

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> [@spark240](#):
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> Neither. I’m suggesting that they don’t exactly make sense, in terms of what those words mean when “to” isn’t appended to them.
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> Can you think of a comparable construction, involving some other adjective plus “to,” that functions with elegance?

up to, next to, down to, out to, off to…

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpicking-the-bbc/562889/82 "2010-12-08T20:51:48Z")

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ITT: People are confused by prepositional phrases.

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