tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 23:15:49 2000
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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day ["descriptive verbs"]
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day ["descriptive verbs"]
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:15:26 EST
In a message dated 11/29/2000 4:10:26 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> You might want to mention that, in TKD and elsewhere, Okrand calls these
> verbs
> "qualities." Here on the list, some people call them "stative verbs,"
> though
> this term means something a bit different in linguistics IIRC.
>
The first term I learned is stative verbs. I will probably keep referring to
them as verbs which the dictionaries list as "be ........."
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