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From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: FORSALE: Adapted 4000A
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Date: 12 Apr 91 18:27:00 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.marketplace: 11-Apr-91 Re: FORSALE:
Adapted 4000A rory toma@alchemy.tcnet. (344)

> > NAME                             PRICE
> > -----------------------------    ----------
> > 
> > Adapted 4000A                    $45.00
> > 

> > 
> It's called an Adaptec, not adapted, one's a name, the other a verb.

> rory

No, ``adapted'' is a past participle, not a verb, and in the context
it's a participial adjective. Rory is right, though in as much as that
the thing for sale is not an adapted 4000a.

michael who loves syntax, but strangely, not spelling.