Re: implicational and factive verbs

Dan Sulani làtae:

> "Nim eat the banana" either is or is not a grammatical sentence.
> If it is, (which of course it isn't), why mark it with an initial
> star? If the initial star signifies that it's ungrammatical, the
> sentence doesn't imply _anything_ because it's not likely to be
> used by a competent English speaker!
To follow up this discussion and tell the curious ones if he
actually made the whole thing up: he did. The conclusion is that
he is a complete nut-case, and actually pretty funny too. :)

Thanks to you guys who replied.

daniel

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