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From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at btinternet.com>
Subject: LL-L "Categories" 2002.09.26 (03) [E]

At 20:01 26/09/02, Neal W. Welsh wrote:
>The fact
>of the matter is that in more modern times one is expected to have number
>and case agreement with respect to noun - adjective pairings if one is
>considered a polished speaker of the language.

I'm puzzled by this observation. Adjectives in modern English,
at least in the variety that I know, are indeclineable. They are
not made to agree with the nouns that they qualify, either in number
or in case.

For example, one does not say "two littles houses" or "the
new's day's dawning".

So what does the observation above refer to?

Goodwill to all,

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                               the barra wadna row its lane
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