http://pd.sparknotes.com/philosophy/beyondgood/section2.html "All psychology hitherto has run aground on moral prejudices and timidities, it has not dared to launch out into the depths. In so far as it is allowable to recognize in that which

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Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of

MrPedantic wrote: Even though the form of the past subjunctive is the same as the form of the simple past, you can distinguish the two by their function: 1. He went to London. 2. If he went to London, he would... Are we not talking about

.... -0- ok, let's put it this way: GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar, to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X', Case theory or the Theta Theory, although it has been quite incorrectly treated as

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your

You mean he thinks the sentence or VP modifier "certainly" modifies "is"? You'll find the difference between verb-modifying adverbs (degree adverbs like "completely", "strictly") and VP- or S-modifying

If you're not sure, you shouldn't make such sweeping statements. It doesn't matter whether the words are bisyllabic or not ... your point here. Plus, there are many dialects of BrE: are you sure you can speak for all of them? No. Huh?

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford