my eight-year-old niece has heard about this and is fascinated, when I spoke to her on the phone this week, she asked me what I do in my job, I asked her what she thought I did
Cutting up bodies and mopping blood
she imagines my place of work to be a combination of hairdressing salon and a butchers
Unaccusative.
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Jim Bisso’s The Morphology of Peevology Facebook post says (I’ve added
links): Language Jones does a good job of explaining unaccusative verbs (as
opposed ...
8 hours ago
And is she right???
ReplyDeleteno - it's much worse!
DeleteCongratulations for the new job Lulu, take care. Hope all is going well.
ReplyDeleteDo you have to take out the fillings?
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