Re: # of possible verb declensions (was gotten, boughten)
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 26, 2002, 19:09 |
JS Bangs scripsit:
> It seems to me that any way of looking at the verbs that makes you aware
> of the number of differrent constructions is very backwards.
What I would find hard about the verbs (as I suppose) is the huge number
of idiosyncratic verb+prepositions: go out 'date', go on 'continue speaking',
go off 'explode' or 'be deactivated', etc. etc.
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