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Are there any regular verbs in English that
And are there any grammatical words in English which contain letter J?
-- 40bus ( talk) 18:29, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
The closest you'll probably get for your first question is dare – it has at least some uses in which it morphologically behaves like a regular verb (he dares, he dared), and it has at least some uses in which it has the modal-verb-like syntactic properties you named (I daren't, how dare you). However, these uses are not overlapping – in exactly those contexts where it behaves syntactically like a modal, it it also behaves like one morphologically. It's he daren't, not *he daresn't, and how dare he do X, not how dares he do X. So you might say these are actually two different items, in which case the answer to your question is a plain "no". Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
-- 40bus ( talk) 20:12, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Just dawned on me that "below/under par" is used when referring to something lacking, of poor quality etc. In golf, below par is great news for the player who achieves it.
So is it that par in golf is of different etymology or did somebody completely miss the intended meaning decades ago, which then spread? I have follow-up questions, but they depend on answers I will hopefully get.
Thank you. Splićanin ( talk) 23:47, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Are there any regular verbs in English that
And are there any grammatical words in English which contain letter J?
-- 40bus ( talk) 18:29, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
The closest you'll probably get for your first question is dare – it has at least some uses in which it morphologically behaves like a regular verb (he dares, he dared), and it has at least some uses in which it has the modal-verb-like syntactic properties you named (I daren't, how dare you). However, these uses are not overlapping – in exactly those contexts where it behaves syntactically like a modal, it it also behaves like one morphologically. It's he daren't, not *he daresn't, and how dare he do X, not how dares he do X. So you might say these are actually two different items, in which case the answer to your question is a plain "no". Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
-- 40bus ( talk) 20:12, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Just dawned on me that "below/under par" is used when referring to something lacking, of poor quality etc. In golf, below par is great news for the player who achieves it.
So is it that par in golf is of different etymology or did somebody completely miss the intended meaning decades ago, which then spread? I have follow-up questions, but they depend on answers I will hopefully get.
Thank you. Splićanin ( talk) 23:47, 3 May 2023 (UTC)