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One of the questions I have in my little game of "Stump the Student" is why "y'all" should take the place of "you" as the a standard second person plural pronoun.> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:43 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Once and Future English Tense> To: [log in to unmask]> > At 09:05 AM 3/20/2008, Carol Morrison wrote: . . .> >Analyzing English Grammar, by Klammer, Schulz, & Volpe, "There is no > >future tense morpheme in English, no affix that can be attached to a > >verb to indicate that the action will take place in the future. > >Simple future time must be expressed by other words in the sentence" . . .> > 1) Modals . . .> >2) Present Tense + Adverbial Modifiers . . .> > DD: Now that hit me hard. I thank y'all for the information. I never > even considered the idea. Trapped in Latin Grammar, I am. Going back > to rearrange my paradigms.> > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:> http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html> and select "Join or leave the list"> > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/
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