Timeline for What is the idea behind calling the adverb the garbage can of words?
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| Feb 21, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @jlawler -- was that last paragraph sarcasm? Was your comment sarcasm? | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 11:39 | comment | added | BillJ | True, but surely the name of the game is to make things as simple as possible. H&P's system works extremely well and is widely accepted. Students love it, believe me! | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @BillJ Any particular grammarian or school may have a fairly precise definition of 'particle' (or for that matter of anything else); but that's not the same thing as the discipline concurring in that definition. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 11:31 | comment | added | BillJ | Particles can be classified. Category-wise they are mostly prepositions, and their function is that of complement. And many of the so-called adverbs are now reanalysed as prepositions, at least they are by Messrs H&P. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 11:01 | comment | added | fdb | ...and if we can't explain its form, we say it contains a laryngeal. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 9:11 | vote | accept | Abdul Al Hazred | ||
| Feb 21, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | jlawler | +1 for the last paragraph. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 2:33 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2017 at 2:27 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |