Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 4, 2002, 14:07 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> It's not the case with the Dutch little words. Without them, the
> sentence doesn't sound complete to Dutch ears, but it's still grammatically
> correct.
German has a similar list of "difficult particles". I once saw a
sentence with about 12 in a row, which I handed to a native speaker.
She instantly identified the inconsistent particle (which made the
sentence pragmatically self-contradictory).
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