Re: Missing the sky

From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> >It would help me a little if someone could supply a sentence where, say,
> >that border on the French flag is the agent or patient of a verb.
>
> "Said border separates the blue from the white."
Not a very meaningful sentence though, I imagine... it's kind of an odd fiction
anyway[1], since nothing *does* separate the blue from the white--they are
contiguous.

You sort of have to invent the border here to talk about it.

Now if it were a different kind of sentence, like,
"He cut the flag along the border that separates the blue from the white"

you could rethrow that sentence as
"He cut the flag between the blue and the white"

And I imagine a lot if not most similar sentences could be thus recast.


    *Muke!
[1] No, I'm not trying to make it impossible to lie in Rami..
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