--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Nelson" > <nelsonriddle2001@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <fairfieldlife@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Remember that story I posted about a week ago which I > > entitled "A > > > > > > Story for Judy and Barry"? Neither of you commented on it. > > > > > > > > > > I thought it was trite and simplistic, actually, Rick, > > > > > and not at all to the point. Neither Barry nor I is an > > > > +++ Does "I is" sound right? Some of the modern English > seems > > to be > > > > getting out of hand. N. > > > > > > Good question. "Barry am" can't be right, though. > > > > > > I had originally written "are," but that's not correct, > > > because "neither/nor" takes a singular verb. > > > > > > I can't think of any way to get around "Barry am" > > > or "I is." Suggestions? > > > > > > > For some reason the best one I can think of with "neither - nor" > > is "Neither is Barry nor am I", but I have no idea how that "wrong" > > order of subject and predicate sounds to native speakers of > > English... > > You probably know the formal rules of English grammar > better than I do! We would never use that construction, > but I couldn't possibly explain why. >
Well, I've studied *some* general linguistics, and that's why I know that English is an SVO-language, that is, the normal word order of a declarative sentence is subject-verb-object. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
