Re: Question about a grammatical term
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 6, 2002, 4:04 |
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:26:44 -0700, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
wrote:
>Next is superlative of nigh!
Ah. Well, since "nigh" isn't in my active vocabulary, I didn't think of
that. I recognize it as an infrequent synonym for "near", but I'm not sure
if I could use it correctly in a sentence.
>> In any case, you can replace it with
>> "following", which means the
>> same thing as "next" in this context; you still
>> wouldn't say "the more following day".
>
>I wouldn't use "more" with participles in general.
>*The more running water comes from a tap.
Sounds like a good rule. So the similarity between Tirelat and English in
this respect might be due to more than one reason; there seem to be
different categories of words that share the property of not being able to
be modified with "more", but otherwise act like adjectives. Well, maybe I
should rephrase that, since "more" in Tirelat modifies stative verbs and
not adjectives....
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