Interestingly, on the page "Parts Of Speech" of the Dictionary, http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/partsofspeech.htm
the section "Others" contains: - Coplulae: =:, =. - Nouns: _, _., a., a: - Punctuation: NB. Copula is a syntactic role which is fulfilled by copula linking words. In English, these are special copulative verbs by the part of speech. Whereas some of them share non-copulative roles (is, get, grow), others are primarily copular (seem). Realizing that "to be" is not the only copulative verb, the two "assignment" primitives could be given different names, for example: =: Is =. Seems Alongside NB., the following particles belong to punctuation, whose role is to determine the parsing or execution flow: - white space: SPACE, TAB - quotes: '' - parentheses: () - line endings: CR, LF - comments: NB., Note'...' ... ) - explicit form: n : 0 ... ) - control words: for. ... if. ... goto_x. > From: Oleg Kobchenko <[email protected]> > > So... ? > > How about > > I like walking. > or > I got to get walking. (I gotta get walking.) > > or > I have been wanting to get walking... > or > I am to walk (If I am to walk with God ...) > or > I am destined to walk > > ..... > > > > > From: bill lam > > > > In the example, > > > > Verbs are "doing words" such as walking in the sentence "The cat is > > walking.". > > > > that 'is walking' (two words toether) is one type of verb tense in > > English grammar, but I see the word 'walking' (alone without 'is') can > > also be classified as noun or adjective, because it denote a state of > > action or being, meaning 'the cat is in a state of walking' > > > > the cat is fat. NB. adjective > > the cat is a pet. NB. noun > > > > In these two sentence, the word 'is' is the (only) verb that > > relating the word (fat, pet) following it reflexively to the subject. > > > > -- > > regards, > > ==================================================== > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
