On 5/17/07, Tracy Harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which study material is recommended so that I may have a clear sense of how to prevent intended verbs from being defined as nouns, and how to know when constant values in definitions may be nouns, as opposed to constant verbs?
I believe most of the pages listed at http://www.google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+noun%20fork would be appropriate That said, a fork which includes a noun has the form: noun verb verb For example, you used e4231 =: 62=2+4*] Here, this is a verb: 4 * ] And, therefore, this is a verb: 2 + (4 * ]) And, therefore, this is a verb: 62 = (2 + (4 * ])) Here, I've used redundant parenthesis to indicate the verb results of earlier parsing. In contrast, for e4232 =: 102=2*]^2 ]^2 is not a verb -- it's ^2, and this impacts further parsing in a similar fashion. Basically, if you want to use noun forks, make sure that your rightmost word in the sentence is a verb, not a noun. This way, if your sentence is syntactically valid, it will typically be a verb. (There are exceptions to this rule, which involve adverbs or conjunctions -- you should spot them rather easily). FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
