--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> I'm wondering what the word "all" is doing in
> sentences such as "I
> love them all" (. . . "and all of them love
> me", sang Matron "Mama" Morton in _Chicago_).
Personally, I'd call it an intensive. The grammar
of the sentence doesn't change when you remove
"all"; but there is a slight shift in nuance.
Same with "God bless us all..." Maybe even with
"yall" (<you all). [I don't have yall as a
plural; for me you all is an intensive.]
> but it's
> not just an oddly-placed adjective; for one
> thing, adjectives can't
> attributively modify pronouns in English. Is
> it just a commaless appositive?
Where would you put a comma and why?
Padraic.
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beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
pe' ne m' molestyont
que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.
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