Grammar question in Luke 3

Jeff Smelser jtsmelser at email.msn.com
Fri Feb 2 11:01:51 EST 2001


Carl Conrad replied to Ken Litwak and said in part...

>This is one of those instances
> where the old-fashioned distinction between attributive and predicate
> positions of AUTOS comes into play:

Just a couple of days ago, I rejoined the list after an absence of about
three years. My question is this: What do you mean when you refer to this
distinction as "old-fashioned" but as coming into play in this instance. I
think of this distinction as fundamental.  Is my understanding a bit too
simplistic? Are you indicating that in other instances the distinction is
not so clear, or am I reading too much into your comment?

cordially,
Jeff Smelser
jtsmelser at msn.com
Bristow, VA





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