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From: ut6y@hp1.ccs.cornell.edu (Uncle Mikey (Michael Scott Shappe))
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Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
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Date: 21 Jan 88 18:40:54 GMT
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Summary: A quicky about Latin verb placement

In article <975@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
>	- Latin has verbs at the end too, French hasn't.

In Classical Latin, the most important verb of the sentence comes last, true,
but other verbs (assuming more than a simple sence) needn't come in any
particular order, though they usually end off their clause.  In simple senten-
ces, the verb USUALLY comes last, but may appear anywhere the speaker feels
is appropriate to what s/he is trying to say, including first.
 
Uncle Mikey
Michael Scott Shappe -- Cornell University
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