RE: Displays: oops, and correction

Subject: RE: Displays: oops, and correction
From: bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:20:56 -0600

I don't know that I really agree with your example. To me, it just sounds
like an incomplete transitive construction. The peacock is displaying his
plumage. Whether the sentence explicitly states so or not, that is what is
going one. Therefore, the verb is transitive.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hart, Geoff [SMTP:Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:28 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Displays: oops, and correction
>
> In my discussion of displays vs. appears, I commented that <<Although the
> word "displays" can certainly be intransitive (e.g., "during the mating
> dance, the male peacock displays"), the usage in modern English is
> overwhelmingly transitive ("Y displays X")>>
>


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