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Re: Some info on Ulm on the web

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Friday, December 27, 2002, 16:15
Ve http://quonton79.tripod.com/ulm.html emaelivpar Quentin Read:
>Usual sentence formation (of the simplest variety): >Dir. Object; Aux. Verb; Subject; Main Verb; Ind. Object.
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... -- AA

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