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6.2.13 Describing a way, using
We already dealt with in the section on comparison and likeness, in
which we also touched on the subject that it can be used to indicate ways
in which things need to be done. We can nominalise sentences in
for use as subphrase:
”Please tell (her) to bring (her) textbook.”Literally, in this sentence turns , ”to bring
(along) (one’s) textbook”, into a way some action may be performed, and
then qualifies the act of ”saying” as this particular way, thus creating the
(now somewhat elaborately translated) statement ”please tell her in such
a way as to effect her bringing along her textbook”.
We also saw that can also be used adverbially in combination
with to create a construction similar to ”try to ...”:
”To try to make it class.”In this sentence, the act of , doing, is likened to the act of
, to aĴend class. This in effect creates the phrase ”To do in a manner
that is like going to class” which is interpreted as ”trying to go to class”.
Aside from nominalising verb phrases, is also used as manner-
conceptualiser when paired with , in the paĴern [...] :
”The message reads as follows.”Literally, this sentence turns the very short noun phrase , mean-
ing ”next” or ”following”, into the manner , meaning ”as follows”
or ”like what follows”, and qualifies , ”being wriĴen (by some-
one)” as being done in this ”following” manner.
6.2.14 Indicating an exact manner using
Unlike , actually specifies an exact manner in which actions take
place. takes a clause and specifies that what follows occurs in the exact