Re: Verb tenses question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 2:40 |
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taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> I've used inceptive as well, since inchoative seems more general and
> ambiguous.
Inceptive indicates the beginning of an action, like "He started to
run", and, AFAICT, inchoative is the same thing, but I'm not sure.
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