[Ads-l] Doonesbury on participles

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Grammatical, but usually with the meaning "This sentence is no verb",
> not "This sentence has no verb" (or even "This sentence was no verb",
> since it's generally present tense copulas that are not explicitly
> expressed).  Ellipsis of finite verbs and auxiliaries in Headline
> English is broader.
>

"Wits at end" < "At wit's end."


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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-Mark Twain

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