Nitpicking the BBC

[Gary_Kumquat]

@spark240

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.

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…

[Shot_From_Guns]

ITT: People are confused by prepositional phrases.