Subject: Re: [FFML] Grammar question
From: "James \"P-Cabbit\" Hanna" <jhthree@soho.ios.com>
Date: 2/11/1997, 5:26 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Jack Ji wrote:

Ok, this came to me while I was walking to the bus to go to karate
practice thsi morning.

Ok, in the English language, like in many other languages, there is
conjugation of verbs. Now, I'm going to use a very simple and everyday
verb: to be.

Ok, now to conjugate it it's like :I am; you are; s/he is; they are.
Now, I find it redundant to use "I am" because "am" does not go along
with anything else (ie he am, they am, the care am.) So, shouldn't we NOT
need the I before am???

Anyway, I made this conclusion after 4 years of Spanish, which you don't
need to add the pronoun before a verb except for clearity.

Just some thoughts on the English language... Any English majors care to
answer my question???

So far i've had 3 1/4(I had it for 1 quarter in 6th grade)years of spanish and i was 
thinking the same thing. But that would be highly irregular to do it for one, but not 
the other conjugations. Spanish doesn't have to show Yo and eres and etc... all the 
time, but it uses that rule all the time and with no exceptions.
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