[Ads-l] Did Comey setup Flynn?

[Mark Mandel]

I seem to see this happening almost everywhere. A particle verb V+ space+P
whose nominal form is a single word, V+P, is for many speakers and writers
also becoming a single word when the verb is not inflected. And in speech
the particle is unstressed, unlike the two-word form.

Mark Mandel
*Happy Beethoven's birthday!*


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:01 AM Galen Buttitta <
satorarepotenetoperarotas3 at gmail.com wrote:

> Huh, odd. “Setup” is merely a noun for me—the verb form is “set up”.
>
> > On Dec 14, 2018, at 01:30, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Hannity FoxNews headline 1:20 ET:
> > "DID COMEY SETUP FLYNN?"
> > As if "FLYNN" were a computer program to be setup?
>
>

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