Re: Conjunctives, etc...

Chris Weimer wrote:
> Thanks Mr. Brown for the Latin, but they're not quite right.
I think what I wrote in fact was correct. Can you point out any error.
What i didn't do, I admit, is to give a _full_ account of all recorded
uses of the various Latin words; that would require something longer
than an email. I tried to concentrate on what seemed to me, who am
fairly familiar with the language, to be the _essential_ points.

> For example,
> you've left off one use of -que where it can join two clauses together.
OK
Firstly, -que obviously could be used to link to phrases or two
_clauses_ under the same conditions that I gave for words.
Also:
Livy uses -que to mean "and so ...", introducing an _explanatory_ clause.
Some writers, e.g. Cicero use -que to introduce showing a transition to
a new subject or thought. Sometimes two clauses can be co-joined with
-que after the first word (or phrase) of each clause; in this case the
first -que often looks back to a previous clause, while the second
introduces

> What  you've written is certainly fairly normal usage,
Gee - thanks.

> but not quite what I was looking for. Sorry.
Could you then explain more clearly what it is that you are looking for?
It seems that I am not the only one a bit mystified, since:
Mark J. Reed wrote:
 > Dumb question, but why do you think there is any difference between
 > those two "and"s?  In each case you have two nouns joined together...
 >
 > On 5/12/07, Chris Weimer <christopher.m.weimer@...> wrote:
 >
 >> Is there a place online where I can see conjunctive formations and how
 >> they
 >> differ from one another? Mostly I'm looking for something that
 >> explains the
 >> difference between the "and" in "Johnson and Johnson (company)" and in
 >> "Jack
 >> and Jill are two cool people".

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