Re: Varon
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 14:35 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
>
>From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> > > English colours _are_ nouns. (They're also adjectives, verbs
> > > and adverbs as well, but that's another matter!)
> >
> > How are they verbs? *He was bluing it. *She redded the chair. I guess
>they
> > count as adverbs is things like 'He painted it yellow'.
>
>"She reddened the chair", possibly.
I'd say that "redden" isn't "red" used as a verb, but a verb derived from
the adjective "red".
Andreas
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