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  • "Nous aussi on aimerait bien" -- (2 Subjects in a =?UTF-8?B?c2VudGVuY2U

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 16 20:19:28 2024
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    "Nous aussi on aimerait bien"

    Nous aussi, on aimerait bien que tu nous laisses une place.


    ------------ more proper to put a comma after [aussi] ?


    From a English-Grammar POV, it seemed odd to have
    two Subjects in a sentence. So i've decided to view
    [Nous aussi] as parenthetical. (so the Comma
    helps)





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    Nous aussi on veut des vacances
    "nous aussi on t'aime"



    [Nous aussi] -- always pron. with liaison ?


    (note how (Hibou and) i tend to put a space before a question mark.)

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  • From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Sun Nov 17 21:48:20 2024
    On 17/11/2024 9:19 a.m., HenHanna wrote:
    "Nous aussi on aimerait bien"

     Nous aussi, on aimerait bien que tu nous laisses une place.


     ------------  more proper to put a comma after [aussi] ?


    From a English-Grammar POV, it seemed odd to have
    two Subjects in a sentence.  So i've decided to view
                       [Nous aussi]  as  parenthetical. (so the Comma
    helps)





    ____________________________________

     Nous aussi on veut des vacances
    "nous aussi on t'aime"



       [Nous aussi] -- always pron. with liaison ?


    (note how (Hibou and)  i tend to put a space before a question mark.)

    You could call [Nous aussi] a topic, which a lot of linguists would do.
    Notice that the verb agrees with 3rd person singular [on], not with [nous].

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