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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: "68375@debbugs.gnu.org" <68375@debbugs.gnu.org>,
	"manphiz@gmail.com" <manphiz@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:07:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548854DA45209F499BAE94ABF36E2@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1rOV6e-0005C9-Bj@fencepost.gnu.org>

>   > In this sentence "need" is not in the subjunctive mood but is being used
>   > as a modal verb, like "can", "must", etc.  What's special about "need"
>   > in this usage is that it only occurs in so-called polarity contexts
>   > (e.g. negative, interrogative), unlike the ordinary modal verbs (so
>   > e.g. "A buffer need be displayed" is ungrammatical but "A buffer
>   > can/must/may be displayed" is fine).
> 
> Is there a grammatical name for this sort of verb usage practice?

Dunno, but these might help:

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/128785/51214

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/281467/51214


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-13 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-10 22:56 bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes Xiyue Deng
2024-01-11 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 13:44   ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 14:21     ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 14:32       ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 14:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 15:18           ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 14:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 15:18       ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 15:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 16:39           ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 16:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 16:46   ` Xiyue Deng
2024-01-12  3:56 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-12  5:44   ` Xiyue Deng
2024-01-12  9:46   ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-13  3:54     ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-13 16:21       ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-13 19:07       ` Drew Adams [this message]

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