Präfix am Ende?

[glhansen]

I found a sentence in a book that I'm having trouble coming to terms with, grammatically speaking

Comments

[frauzosimos]

To my mind it's as if there were a comma after the "an". The "an" is bracketing the word kühl and then the sentence continues with a new thought. It makes the whole line sound more poetic.

[glhansen]

Yes, that seems right. Textbook grammar has primed me to look for commas in all kinds of places that real-world grammar, and perfectly literate people, don't always put there.

Thank you for replying, but I'm kind of surprised you found this. This is my personal Livejournal page, which I don't really use. I had meant to post this on Denglish, a German-English forum, where I have found some excellent help.

[frauzosimos]

I thought that's where I found it--on the Deutsch-English forum.

[glhansen]

Huh. I just checked, and no. Weird. But thanks!

[frauzosimos]

I probably clicked through to your profile and saw the post there. :-)