tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 30 20:24:28 1997
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Re: KLBC story: ram HoH
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC story: ram HoH
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 97 02:44:12 UT
[email protected] on behalf of peHruS wrote:
> In a message dated 97-06-28 09:18:00 EDT, SuStel analyses Qov's story:
>
> > I've had trouble accepting multiple verbs used as adjectives, since we've
> > never seen them in canon. It makes perfect sense, of course, but I'd like
> > to see them used before doing this. Rather, we can use relative clauses,
> > combined with adjectival verbs:
>
> A couple of years ago this listserv discussed how to conjoin multiple
> verb-adjectives following a single noun. We decided that we just string
them
> after the noun they modify using no conjunction whatsoever.
Did "we"? How interesting.
Anyway, I've had trouble accepting multiple verbs used as adjectives, since
we've never seen them in canon. It makes perfect sense, of course, but I'd
like to see them used before doing this. Rather, we can use relative clauses,
combined with adjectival verbs.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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