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Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: adverbials



tulwI' jang HomDoq:

>Me:
>>  >of course. whether you see rammo' as a noun with a suffix or as
>>  >something else (a phrase, maybe?) doesn't change this.
>>  >
>>  >I still prefer to see it as a noun (with a suffix)
>>
>Stephan Schneider <[email protected]>
>>  _you_ can see it this way, but the grammar implemented in your brain,
>>  can't.
>
>whatever that means... I'm sure my brain has no difficulty distinguishing
>the word from its function. the word is a noun. its function is giving a
>reason for what happened

ok. then we call it word (aka part of speech) and function (aka part 
of sentence). so it's not enough to see a word as a word but as a 
function. that was my point. but it's ok now, isn't it?

tulwI',
sts.


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