From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 08:37:23 EST
In a message dated 3/19/2000 7:54:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu writes:
<<
Personally I think Mounce's phrasing is misleading here: "a first
declension case ending for the subject of the verb is nothing"--that's not
wrong, but I think it would have been clearer to say the same thing with
"there is no distinctive case ending for the first-declension feminine
singular subject of the verb."
>>
Carl,
You've done it again. That quote from Mounce had me scratching my head
wondering what in the world he meant. You're correct. That is a very
unfortunate way to express the matter.
gfsomsel
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