[lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:08:54 -0000
I had to look up reflexive verbs too, Ursula. I was taught
English grammar the old-fashioned way (strong and weak verbs,
clause analysis/parsing), later learned the French verb tenses
and moods... but never came across that/
Judy
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From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
> Reflexive verbs? I'd heard of reflexive pronouns, but not
reflexive
> verbs. Googling explains why -- used only in other languages.
German
> was my first language, but I never formally studied it, so
didn't know
> the term from that. I also studied a bit of conversational
French when
> I first moved to Northern Ontario (lots of French here), but
again
> didn't learn much terminology. My mother would say
> Mann wirt so alt wie eine Kuh
> und lernt noch immer was dazu
> (spelling from memory)
> Ursula
> in sunny but cold North Bay
>
> JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I think we're back to transitives and intransitives....which
sort of
> > leads to reflexive verbs and of course we could talk about
> > subjunctives (which are horribly unclear in the English
language). Or
> > not.
>
>
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