Hi, Alexander!  Recently I wrote in a message to you:   
      
   AH>  (IIRC it generally takes about two weeks to travel from   
   AH>  Whitehorse in the Yukon to Fairbanks in Alaska by dog sled   
   AH>  ... but there is a mountain range between these places.)   
      
      
             Seems to me you & I chatted a while ago about how the placement of   
   adverbs & adverbial phrases may be somewhat flexible in English.  Here is an   
   example.  I realized after posting the above that I could have put it better   
   too.  From a stylistic POV it would be preferable to say:   
      
               (IIRC it generally takes about two weeks to travel by dog   
               sled from Whitehorse in the Yukon to Fairbanks in Alaska   
               ... but there is a mountain range between these places.)   
      
             The placement of "by dog sled" is flexible.  But I think the whole   
   sentence is more effective, and easier to read, when all of the geographical   
   information appears as a single unit with a minimum of interruption....  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)