++++++++> So, all I can do is bounce the question back to [oops] Welsh-L: is there any similarity between some uses of the Welsh construction Ti eisio paned o de? and the Mad Magazine sentence Juan buy a stretch limo!? If not, when *can* you use a sentence having no inflected verb? >+++++++++ I don't know about Welsh in particular. What I will note is that there are examples in many languages of expressions which would translate into eg English with a finite verb, but are conveyed by a participle or other non-finite form and an auxiliary which is often identical with the copula (eg Serbo-Croat 'jesam video' = I-am having-seen = I saw), and often in such cases the auxiliary is unexpressed (eg Russian 'ja vid'el' = I having-seen; Hebrew 'ani holex' = I going). Welsh with its periphrastic expressions could be seen as having the same sort of construction, so it may not be surprising if the auxiliary can drop. Note also colloquial English expressions like: (You) going home? Colin