Re: THEORY: What, Besides Verbs, Can Take Two Or More Arguments?

In a message dated 8/3/2005 7:49:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tomhchappell@YAHOO.COM writes:

>Does that mean "than" has two clausal arguments?
>Is it a co-ordinating conjunction?
It's classed as a subordinating conjunction, not a coordinating one.
I think that only the second clause is considered an "argument" of "than."

Similarly, consider a preposition, like "in" in "the cat in the hat."  Here,
only "the hat" is considered an argument/object of "in."  Although "in" (or
the phrase "in the hat") modifies "cat", I don't think that "the cat" is
considered an "argument" of "in."

Doug