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Ericsteef Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Plz help

the verb tell is considered to be transitive intransitive auxiliary or copula?

sure it is not an auxiliary verb.

unlikely i lost at my money that year

what is the syntatic analyze to this sentence?
  

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Ah, Eric...

Tell is transitive (I'll tell them the secret) or intransitive (You never can tell.)

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thanks. is that mean it is not a copula?
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Copulas are followed by nouns or adjectives that describe the subject. Can you make a sentence like that using 'tell', Eric?

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