Re: Is "is" a verb?

From: Evan Kirshenbaum (kirshenbaum_at_hpl.hp.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:44:35 -0700

LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> Well? I don't find "going it" acceptable. When has "to go" become
> transitive?

It works in the phrase "go it alone". A bit less so in its opposite,
"go it together". 

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