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Re: THEORY: Auxiliaries

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Saturday, December 28, 2002, 21:53
Emaelivpar Christophe Grandsire:  [snipped like crazy]
>The point is that when an auxiliary is present, it is grammatically the >*main verb* of the clause, and because of that takes the same position as any >verb. The particularity of an auxiliary verb is to take over the conjugation. >What you have is a past tense *particle*, which needs to appear in front
of the
>main verb. But you don't have an auxiliary verb.
Ahhhh, I understand the differences now. Thank you. </confusion> :) -- AA