On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM +0100 or thereabouts, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> Not strictly true ... you have a verb and two nouns (one object, one
> subject), therefore you can construe a unit of sense, in this case "cat mat
> sat", they are in order, and since we know from experience that mats have
> difficulty sitting anywhere (especially on cats) we can assume that the cat
> is doing the sitting (being the animate object in the sentence, and
> therefore the subject of the verb "to sit")
>> Proinnsias
> (Who didn't realise I knew this much grammar ...)
>> > -----Original Message-----
> > cat mat sat - no grammar.
> >
> >
Interestingly, the addition of an 'h' to one of the words still maintains
the sense of the supposed sentence.
Conor
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