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Re: The only FIVE verbs -- CORRECTION

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 2:36
--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:22:57AM +0100, Andreas > Johansson wrote: > > > "do work" is "cause work to be done" > > > > I'd say not. The later could just as well mean > ordering my underlings to do > > some work. > > More to the point, how do you get "done" without the > existence of "do"?
Cause product(noun) of work to exist? --gary