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Taka Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
infinitive, again
0 00 ・Once human began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt 01 span 00 to add to their diet 02 span 00 . 02 br
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00 About the infinitive 'to add to their diet', is it adjectival, modifying 'salt, or adverbial? If it's adverbial, which does it modify; 'looking for' or 'began'? 02 br
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00 About the infinitive 'to add to their diet', is it adjectival, modifying 'salt, or adverbial? If it's adverbial, which does it modify; 'looking for' or 'began'? 02 br
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0 Hi Taka 02 br 00 I don't like the sentence at all. 02 i 02 br 00 To me the infinitive expresses purpose. It indicates 01 b 00 why 02 b 00 man began looking for salt.
- 0 Hi Taka 02 br 00 I don't like the sentence at all.
- 02 i 02 br 00 To me the infinitive expresses purpose.
- It indicates 01 b 00 why 02 b 00 man began looking for salt.
- I never cared for any other definitions for it and I have got(ten) 05 0 00 along just fine so far.
- 02 br 00 CB 010id 1
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0 Hi Taka 02 br
00 I don't like the sentence at all. I would say: 02 br
01 i 00 Once/when 01 b 00 man 02 b 00 began cultivating crops, 01 b 00 he 02 b 00 began looking for salt to add to 01 b 00 his 02 b 00 diet. 02 i 02 br
00 To me the infinitive expresses purpose. It indicates 01 b 00 why 02 b
00 I don't like the sentence at all. I would say: 02 br
01 i 00 Once/when 01 b 00 man 02 b 00 began cultivating crops, 01 b 00 he 02 b 00 began looking for salt to add to 01 b 00 his 02 b 00 diet. 02 i 02 br
00 To me the infinitive expresses purpose. It indicates 01 b 00 why 02 b
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0 Sorry, CB. The original was 'W 01 span 00 hen 00 human beings 00 began cultivating crops'. 02 span 01 span 00 It was my mistake. 02 span 02 br
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01 span 00 If it's adverbial, to be more precise, which does it modify; 'began' or 'look(ing) for'? 02 br
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01 span 00 If it's adverbial, to be more precise, which does it modify; 'began' or 'look(ing) for'? 02 br
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01 cite 10 Taka 12 cite 10 If it's adverbial, to be more precise, which does it modify; 'began' or 'look(ing) for'? 12 br10 Both. 02 br
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0 Yes, you can say it's both, the chunk 'began looking for'. But if you were supposed to pin down a single word/verb, what would it be? 0-
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1 i 00 Let's look for salt to add to our diets. 02 i 02 br
01 i 00 Let's look for salt to pour in our wounds. 02 i 02 br
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00 Do these refer to two different kinds of salt? 02 br
00 Do these refer to two different reasons for looking for salt? 02 br
00 The answer might be "Yes" in either case, but I'm inclined to say that most
01 i 00 Let's look for salt to pour in our wounds. 02 i 02 br
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00 Do these refer to two different kinds of salt? 02 br
00 Do these refer to two different reasons for looking for salt? 02 br
00 The answer might be "Yes" in either case, but I'm inclined to say that most
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Allow me to pick up this thread again.
·Once human began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt to add to their diet.
About the 'add' in bold, is it transitive or intransitive?
And if 'to add...' was replace with 'in order to add...' as:
·Once human began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt in order to add to their diet.
·Once human began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt to add to their diet.
About the 'add' in bold, is it transitive or intransitive?
And if 'to add...' was replace with 'in order to add...' as:
·Once human began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt in order to add to their diet.
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