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Re: Methods of Question-Forming

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Saturday, April 12, 2003, 3:45
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 20:23, John Cowan wrote:

> A few verbs, like "dare", can function either as modals or not.
And then there's 'better' which wants to be a modal verb ('You better go now'), but is told to be an adverb ('You'd better go now'). Tristan.