tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 11 22:40:18 1999
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Re: Ordering food
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Ordering food
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:39:31 EST
In a message dated 1/10/1999 10:58:17 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< {vavwI'vaD HablI' vItI'pu'} doesn't translate easily into an
English sentence having an indirect object. >>
OTOH, by all I have learned about English grammar, your sentence IS a perfect
example of an IO. "...for my father" is the IO.
peHruS