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Re: Some info on Ulm on the web

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Friday, December 27, 2002, 19:05
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