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- adjective Having the ability to
catenate , or formchains .
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Examples
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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On other occasions Yoda strands auxiliary verbs at the end of a sentence by transposing their catenative components toward the beginning:
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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On other occasions Yoda strands auxiliary verbs at the end of a sentence by transposing their catenative components toward the beginning:
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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