[B-Greek] Attraction (was: syntax in 2 cor 10:12-13)
Bert de Haan
dehaanaf at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 17:16:49 EST 2009
I have wondered before if attraction is a "grammatical rule" or a
description of a grammatical mistake. The way George has described it
exactly what I mean (except I never compared it to getting fleas.)
When I say: "Not one of the potatoes are cooked," do I call the
disagreement in number between 'one' and 'are' a grammatical mistake
or is this a case of attraction?
Bert de Haan
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> From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
> To: "yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net" <yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net>, greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:20:58 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Attraction (was: syntax in 2 cor 10:12-13)
> "Law abiding"? What would be law abiding would be for a word to be found in the case appropriate to it usage in the clause or sentence. Attraction simply describes the tendency which sometimes is operative for a word to adopt the case of another word in the sentence. In the case I cited the relative was standing shoulder to shoulder with its antecedent and therefore adopted its case -- that isn't "lawful" action. If I stand next to you and you have fleas, I may end up with fleas too.
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> george
> gfsomsel
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