Re: V2 (plus Géarthnuns serendipity)

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> From: "Nik Taylor"
> > it's "He better
> > go", not *"He better goes".  Usage-wise, it's perhaps a restricted kind
> > of auxiliary.
> I'd better go (from "I had better go")  --> I better go.
I remember reading in a book about child language that a
three-year-old said "We better go, bettern't we?" Obviously she'd
hit on the auxiliary use :-)

   Irina

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