Timeline for Are there any rules governing whether or not a verbal phrase can be split by its subject?
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| Mar 25, 2018 at 1:48 | vote | accept | Lisa Beck | ||
| Mar 25, 2018 at 1:47 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | ... It didn't really seem like an act of physically coming to work but more of something like (they) wind up working/end up working, similar to how acabar or terminar are used w/a gerund to indicate a result. So, for any verbal phrase conveying existence/result, regardless of which combo of verbs are used, this construct -- CONJ. VERB - SUBJ. - PREP. +INF. -- can be used. If, on the other hand, I want to convey something less existential and something more physical or literal, such as an act of movement, then I would be wise to stick with regular SUBJ. - VERB - PREP. +INF. order. Right? | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 1:42 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | I think I’m going to go ahead and give you the green checkmark even though aparente001 very directly and succintly addresses a major aspect of this verbal split that I had been wondering about. But that link you sent me, especially its section on haber and existir was something I had not known about before and as I was writing the bit about "venir" being a verb of motion, part of me didn't really feel that the phrase vienen a trabajar was referring to the act of motion .... | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 2:30 | history | edited | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2018 at 1:44 | history | answered | pablodf76 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |