Re: Most common irregular verbs?

For me, ago is most definitely NOT an adjective. A principle requirement
for an adjective is that you can say "It is [adjective]." as a
grammatical sentence.

To me it is a postposition. Yes, that probably does make it the only one
in the English language. Nothing wrong with that. I believe Maltese also
has only one postposition, which it inherited from Arabic. Curiously,
the sole postposition in Maltese fulfils exactly teh same grammatical
function.

Fabian

caeruleancentaur wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@A...> wrote:
>
> My apologies for not signing my previous message.  I hit the wrong
> key!  I wanted to add that neither "whole the thing" nor "the all
> things" would be allowed in English.
>
> I can see from the other messages that there is some confusion on the
> definition of an adjective.  This comes as no surprise since there are
> many debatable areas in the field of languages.  But for the time
> being I will call "ago" an adjective because other postpositional
> adjectives do exist in English and to call it a postpostion would mean
> that it's the only one in the English language, a situation certainly
> not impossible, but to me not really logical.