Re: Adpositions gaining new uses
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 17, 2008, 20:20 |
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
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> I find that a perfectly acceptable English sentence, along with the common
> "I want out". I hear people, especially kids, omit "go" in a lot of contexts
> like that.
>
> --gary
>
But "I want out" omits "to be", which generally is a more common and more
accepted omission than other verbs because of its duh-ness. Russian for
example mandates the omission thereof in the present tense: "Ya student" - I
am a student, etc.
Eugene
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