Re: Odd construct
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 11, 2001, 18:51 |
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on 10/10/01 19:11, Matthew Kehrt (matrix14@HOME.COM) wrote:
> Hey, all, a question.
>
> If I say spomething along the lines of "There are butterflies", what is
> the subject of the sentence? I've heard it has none. How does this
> work?
I've always read that (and phrases like it) as an inversion of "Butterflies
are there". Likewise "There's a book on the table" -> "A book is there on
the table".
andy.
adchaney@louisiana.edu
http://adc.htmlplanet.com/
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