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Re: action verbs vs. qualities

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: action verbs vs. qualities
• Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:29:35 EDT

In a message dated 2004-05-27 8:43:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> >The subject of a verb of quality is a patient, the one experiencing the
> >quality.
> 
> Why couldn't it be that the subject is the one *expressing* the quality?
> 

Because that's not what a patient is, by definition.  The patient 
*experiences* the state.

lay'tel SIvten

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