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Re: valency question

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Friday, May 11, 2001, 11:43
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
> Hi! > > Muke Tever <alrivera@...> writes: > > Juan llamó el gato feo. > > John called the cat ugly > > "John called the ugly cat/John called the cat ugly." > > Wouldn't > Juan llamó feo el gato. > be > John called the cat ugly. > ? > > while > Juan llamó el gato feo > would be (quite unambiguously) > John called the ugly cat. > ? > > I only have some intuitive idea of Spanish, but no grammar (at all) in > my head, so maybe I'm wrong.
You're probably right ;) As has been demonstrated, my grasp of the grammar is less than perfect. *Muke!