Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 6, 2003, 23:10 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> As I said, the past tense of the auxiliaries has nearly taken a life of its
> own. But tense agreement still exists as far as I know (the past of "I do it
> because I can" is "I did it because I could". I doubt "I did it because I can"
> would have the same meaning, or would even be simply correct)
"I did it because I can" is indeed ungramatical, at least for me. I
wouldn't be surprised, tho, if there was a dialect somewhere that
allowed that.
However, most of the present-past pairs have lost all traces of tense,
such as may-might, will-would, shall-should
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