Re: Most common irregular verbs?

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@G...> wrote:

>Another possibility is for a few adjectives or adverbs to violate
>the general rule about N-Adj or V-Adv order, as in e.g. French
>where a few common adjectives precede their nouns while all others
>follow them.
>You might also have a handful of common adpositions appear in the
>opposite order from the rest, e.g. mostly prepositional but with a
>few common postpositions (e.g. English "ago") or vice versa.  Or
>most adpositions take nouns in a certain case, and a few rregularly
>take some other case.
As I understand it, "ago" is not a postposition.  It is an
adjective postposed.  It can also be an adverb as in "It happened
long ago."  But it is never a postposition.

Whenever I think of a postposed adjective I immediately think
of "This is the forest primeval...."  But, of course, that kind of
license is permitted in poetry.

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur

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