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From: marek@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: "still as a verb"
Message-ID: <397@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 16:37:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 16:37:59 1983
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As a non-native speaker of english, I sometimes get confused over just what
English constructs sound "weird" even though they're "legal" English.  The
use of "still" as a verb, specifically, as an intransitive verb, is one such
confusing domain.  Consider:

	-- Still your voice!  (not weird, right? -- well, it's trannsitive...)
	-- Only then did the machine still (hmmm, not quite right...)

Merriam-Webster's Third Unabridged recognizes still as both transitive and
intransitive verb.  My question to the English-speaking world is as follows:

Would any of you ever use "still" intransitively and if so when?

				-- Marek Lugowski
				   Indiana U. CSD
				   ...!puree!iuvax!marek
(sorry for typos: english, trannsitive)