@Warsaw Will,

I am not Jayles. And on the note of that not being an adverbial subordinator, my Warriner's grammar book says that subordinators of purpose are "that, so that, and one other that slips my mind". I have seen and used "so that" to mark purpose but have never seen that (and honestly, I was hoping you might have seen the usage of "that" as subordinator). However, in this case, my Warriner's may be wrong because whenever I search for "that" as subordinator, I find nothing.

@smitty

No one cares.

"That" can be a demonstrative pronoun or a relative pronoun. When "that" acts as a relative pronoun, it is usually a part of a noun clause or a restrictive adjective clause. Finally there are cases where "that" can be used as the head of a subordinate adverb clause.

That in a noun clause:

"He said that I was wrong."

And:

"That one can see is a blessing." (Odd word structure in my opinion but can be effective)

As an adjective clause

"My dog that ate the cat's food ran at my neighbor."

Finally, it's odd to see "that" used in an adverb clause and I don't have a good example to give.

Yes, I don'r consider those as errors either. But most prescriptivists in the hierarchy do.

Actually, considering that errors is being compared to more than one, it should be most, i.e. splitting infinitives, stranding prepositions, etc. Comparison of three or more things is superlative therefore requires most.

Warsaw Will,
What kind of linguist books do have? I wish to get a few extra English books.

Thank you, Warsaw Will.

Happy New Year, Warsaw WIll and everyone else!

Anyway, I found this for "Intend on", which appears to be a colloquialism:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/intendon.html

However, I don't see anything wrong with it; after all, it implies the same thing.

Whoops, your not you're.

Although I would not say it sounds wrong, its grammar, which is what you're issue is, is odd, but I think has something to do with "doing". I think in this phrase "doing" is a gerund with gerundial object of "something". Thus, in breaking the constituents up, leads to:

(I intend) (on doing something) (about that)

The first part being the subject and verb package and the rest being prepositions.