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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Subject of "Let us go."

If there is anyone who is seriously interested in the answer, I have just found a scholarly explanation that I felt duty-bound to share.

Just google these words:

Subject of "Let us go." Modality in English.

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Messrs. Salkie, Busuttil, and Van Der Auwera explain the whole thing.  Although much of it was over my head, I did

understand a little bit of it.  It did help me get a bit closer to understanding this construction.

Happy reading!
  

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Very interesting, thank you.

Here's the link:
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In Scandinavia, grammatical analysis is sometimes different from what is common in the Anglo-Saxon world. That's why I wondered for a while what "subject" means in James's post. In the grammar I am used to, only finite verbs are said to have subjects. That is unimportant, though.

I'm not sure I understand correctly what is meant by "subject", but the sentence can have two meanings because
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