Subj : to pull the door to against
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Tue Dec 24 2019 13:56:13

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

 AK>> Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled
 AK>> the door to against the increasing rain.

 AK>  It "against" a verb? ;-)


          No, it's a preposition.  I think the difficulty here is that "to" may 
be used either as a preposition or, less commonly, as an adverb.  :-)


                I pulled the door to = I shut the door

                against the rain = to prevent the rain from coming in




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