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Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Saturday, June 7, 2003, 0:30
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)



> The tendency for lengthy verb strongs is pretty pangermanic; "I will have
> been ..." is only to common in English.

In our ESL class, we spent a whole morning's lesson on the concept of
stringing verbs together, such as "would have been about to" and "should be
able to have gone", etc.