--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Shall maketh not? > > Sorry, should've emphasized: not with *any* auxiliary > verb (shall, will, do...)
Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: "Hair alone doth not Gino make." > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Uh, no. Hair does not maketh Gino, alone. Gino has that umph. Uhumph.> > > > > > > Hmmm...methinks 'maketh' is a finite verb form? > > > Thus, it ought not to be used with an auxiliary > > > verb like 'do'??
