Re: English question

Thank you very much. It seems most people either perceive 'Liberal' as a
noun or adverb.

The explanation with 'home' sounds quite convincing to me.


@Padraic: I would say in "sounds good", "feels good" etc. the 'good' is an
adjective like with (to) be.



Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
>Incidentally, can anyone say what the `one' is there?
In German I would describe such a construction as a doubled object. It is
used when the two objects are identical. (so 'one' is another direct object)

>A preposition? A part of the verb (like those other verb-preposition pairs
an example of
which I can never come up with when I want one)?

I think I can't follow you up here.

>And also, what's a better name for prepositions in English, given that they
can go before and after things?

Pre+position: Before~
Post+position: After~
Ad+position: neutral

(same as prefix, suffix, affix)


Michael Poxon wrote:
"He voted the party line" though, definitely isn't acceptable
British English; you'd need to say "He voted for the party line, he voted
with the party line, etc" but you still need a preposition in there. We
could do with a nice Germanic separable verb here!

At least German uses a preposition here, too. I don't know whether other
germanic language do so.

German would be "Er stimmte mit der Partei ab." or something like that.


Stefan