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Re: What is this construction

From:Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:41
Peter Bleackley wrote:

> He liked languages, did Tolkien. > > It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone know what > such a construction is called?
I've never seen this form, except as "did <pronoun>?" as a tag question. Do you have some specific example that you were thinking of? Your (apparently) made-up one doesn't look grammatical, to me. -- At M’khi Nen'dh, she murmured, nédhhiul, methne kirikkíssne lésesen, O mists, that you would clear! Obediently, the plumes of cloud folded themselves, closed their wings, and when finally settled, the black-beaked crane dipped its head in greeting. Feneng was not prepared for this. Shreyas Sampat http://njyar.blogspot.com

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