SleepyWitch
08-07-2007, 09:38 AM
hiya, I'm doing research for my graduation thesis (equivalent to M.A. thesis) in English Linguistics these days. It's about "light verb constructions" (e.g. have a look, have a walk etc vs just the plain verbs look (at), walk etc.
at the moment I'm picking apart an article 30% of which sound plausible, another 30% of which are acceptable with a stretch of the imagination and 60% of which are plain rubbish :D
could some native speakers please paraphrase for me what for our meals means in the sentence below?
hehe, I think I've got a very rough idea what it means ;), but I'd like native speakers' judgements :)
We had a considerable walk to a small restaurant in the town for our meals.
hehe, of course I will not cite this little experiment in my thesis, but replicate it off-line if it turns out to be relevant.
thanks a lot :)
edit: please give your answer in size 1 font and a colour that makes it difficult to read, so the second person to answer doesn't get influenced by what the first said and so on
at the moment I'm picking apart an article 30% of which sound plausible, another 30% of which are acceptable with a stretch of the imagination and 60% of which are plain rubbish :D
could some native speakers please paraphrase for me what for our meals means in the sentence below?
hehe, I think I've got a very rough idea what it means ;), but I'd like native speakers' judgements :)
We had a considerable walk to a small restaurant in the town for our meals.
hehe, of course I will not cite this little experiment in my thesis, but replicate it off-line if it turns out to be relevant.
thanks a lot :)
edit: please give your answer in size 1 font and a colour that makes it difficult to read, so the second person to answer doesn't get influenced by what the first said and so on