For completeness, a 3rd rule,
if the right most word is a conjunction, the expression will be an adverb.

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From: Pascal Jasmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:00:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] getting nouns when I seek verbs, etc.

A rule of thumb, 
if the right most word (or parenthesized expression) is a noun, the expression 
will be a noun.
the right most word is a verb or adverb, the expression will be a verb.

Exeptions:

if the 2nd righmost word is a conjunction, then the 2 words together make/are 
an adverb
If the rightmost word or pair of words are an adverb, then if all the other 
words resolve to adverbs (ie conjunction verb/noun pairs count as an adverb), 
then the whole expression is an adverb.



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