Re: Aspects vs. Tenses in an All-Out Grudge Match!
| From: | Jim Grossmann <steven@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 22, 1999, 10:21 |
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>I wonder why in French, some verbs use one auxiliary (avoir-to have) and
>others (around 20 intransitives) use another (=EAtre-to be). Actually, d=
idn't
>English do this too at one point?
Though I don't know much about this history of English, I know that it ha=
d
such verbs.
"come" and "become" were two of them, if I remember my Christmas hymns
correctly:
Joy to the World, the Lord is come, etc.
The Kingdom of this world; is become; the Kingdom of Our Lord, etc.
Jim