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Re: your first point. In English, the first noun is almost always the actor of the verb, with subsequent nouns being acted upon. This isn't true for other lang
by run4yourlives 13y ago
Re: your first point.
In English, the first noun is almost always the actor of the verb, with subsequent nouns being acted upon. This isn't true for other languages though.
(I'm sure someone will come up with an exception to that rule but for 90% of the cases this is true).
- jweese 13y agoExcept in passive constructions, but maybe that's an easy case to detect.