Podcast Episode 32 – Schrödinger’s Adjective and Three Other Pieces of Grammar Philosophy

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Why is the past tense not the past tense?

Why are “done,” “swum” and “gone” just adjectives dressing up as verbs so they can get into a “verbs only” party?

How do you hide yourself in a sentence that isn’t about you?

And did you know that the future doesn’t exist in English, and we have no way of expressing the future?

Let’s take a look at the world of philosophical grammar and discover imposters, impossibilities and Schrödinger’s adjective, whatever that is …

… or isn’t.

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