Re: Topics and foci/focuses... Wow, now I get it!!!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 6, 2001, 9:32 |
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At 02:16 2001-05-06 -0400, Muke Tever wrote:
> He [switched on] the light.
>
> ["He died in the street"]
One difference between phrasal verbs and verbs followed by a prefosition is
that in phrasal verbs the particle/prefosition is stressed. Are native
English speakers not aware of this fact? It works the same in Scandinavian
lgs, BTW.
/BP 8^)>
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