--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > > > Tin Pan Alley > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aon6JfHxnTo >
"Alley's the roughest place I've ever been". That seems like a slightly anomalous sentence from the POV of standard English grammer. Now, how could we interpret it? 1. I (here: SRV)could be many rough places, but Alley is the roughest I've ever been. That's perhaps I slightly schizophrenic, or whatever, i-p. 2. Anomalous use of the verb 'to be' as an transitive verb, in which case 'Alley' is the object of that sentence; cf. "I visited Alley last week". 3. Omitting the preposition 'to': poetic license? Alley's the roughest place I've ever been (to)??
