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Re: Rovers and more...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 6 15:12:30 1994
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From: baruch@nynexst.com (Robert Baruch)
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 10:05:07 EST
| 2) The other question was something I saw in TKD. The sentence I was
| worried about was: yaS vIHoH... I killed the officer. Wouldn't it be
| better to say: yaS bIHoH? Why would I want to say vI? That sounds
| more like: I killed him the officer.
As I understand it, the person and number of the object must match the
object person and number of the verb prefix. Since "the officer" here
is the object, the person is 3 and the number is 1, so the prefix must
be {vI-}. 'Sees' in English can only be used in the present
tense for third person singular, but you wouldn't say
"The officer he sees the serpent." Unless you were an actor playing
a Frenchman speaking English ("The telephone, she is ringing!") ;-)
--Rob
