Re: Some info on Ulm on the web
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 27, 2002, 19:05 |
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:12:10AM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> The auxilary separate from the main verb seems unusual to me.
> Knowledgeable folk out there, help me out: does it seem strange to me just
> because it's termed an auxilary "verb" and therefore I want it to be
> associated with the verb itself? I'm thinking that perhaps this is just an
> Englishism on my part, and that if the auxilary verb were instead called a
> mood marker...
Did you ever see a sentence like this one? "Did" is an auxiliary verb,
but it's nowhere near "see". Of course, that's because of verb-fronting
in questions, but still...
Amanda