Hello everyone,
There's a interesting example sentence in Adler's textbook, which got me thinking about the ways the gerundive can be expressed in English, Who has long letters to write? and it is rendered as follows: Cui sunt epistolae longae scribendae? I was wondering what would happen to the sentence should we allow a slight but distinctive change in meaning, namely substitute the modal "have to" for the "have (acc.) to (inf.)" construction, thus: Who has to write long...
Who has to write long letters?
There's a interesting example sentence in Adler's textbook, which got me thinking about the ways the gerundive can be expressed in English, Who has long letters to write? and it is rendered as follows: Cui sunt epistolae longae scribendae? I was wondering what would happen to the sentence should we allow a slight but distinctive change in meaning, namely substitute the modal "have to" for the "have (acc.) to (inf.)" construction, thus: Who has to write long...
Who has to write long letters?