[lit-ideas] Wrongly
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:53:39 EDT
In a message dated 10/11/2004 8:50:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
<<But, even though you quoted it wrong (Professor Lye said, "I think of
myself as a expert in every field but my own") you are right.>>
Is "wrong" an adverb?
----
I think this is what Chomsky would call a divergence between deep and
surface structure:
Andy wrote:
You quote it wrong.
Note that this is slightly similar to:
You were wrong in quoting.
--- You _can_ say, 'you were wrongly in quoting', but that would be otiose?
Cheers,
JL
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