---Raul Miller wrote:
> Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> > I think these are all examples of an adverb acting on a
> > noun to its left to form a new verb?
>
> No.
>
> These are all examples of an adverb acting on a noun to its
> left. But the first
> example forms a noun. And other examples form an adverb or a
> conjunction.
> Some other examples illustrate the use of the derived adverb or
> derived conjunction.
>
> > For an explicit statement that says that when an adverb
> applies to a noun on its
> > left it forms a new verb.
>
> Since an adverb plus a noun can form a new noun, or a new
> adverb, or a new
> conjunction, you will not find such a statement in the dictionary.
>
> a=: 1 :'5+#m'
> 'b' a
> 6
>
> Here, a is an adverb, and 'b' is a noun. The adverb plus the
> noun forms a new
> noun (6). Since a noun is not a verb, this illustrates that an adverb
> plus a noun
> need not form a new verb.
Thanks for that. I was interpreting the 6 as the result of a verb 'b' a , but
see now that I was in error. I will study your examples some more.
It appears the statement I was looking for would be more along the lines of:
"A two-element train of a noun and an adverb can form any one of a noun,
conjunction, verb or adverb."
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