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From: dsa@dlogics.COM (David Angulo)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: NLP reference wanted
Summary: nouns are not verbs
Message-ID: <695@dlogics.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 21:47:41 GMT
References: <25674@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <8038@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <285@sps.com>
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In article <285@sps.com>, vjk@sps.com (Vince Kovarik) writes:
| In article <8038@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, mock@iris.ucdavis.edu 
| (Kenrick J. Mock) replies:
| 
| > 
| > Semantics are necessary to really understand what is going on.
| > Consider the following sentences:
| > 
| > "John gave Mary a book."
| > "John gave Mary a kiss."
| > "John gave Mary a beating."
| > 
| > All of these sentences are syntactically the same, but obviously mean
| > different things.  
| > 
| 
| Both kiss and beating are verbs but different forms (i.e. simple 
| present and present participle).  
| 

Kiss and beating CAN BE verbs but are not here.  Kiss is a noun and beating
is a gerund (also a noun).  You may not but the article "a" before a verb.
Look it up.
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