Re: Find the verb

Nigel Greenwood wrote:
On Mar 18, 8:44 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:35:40 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address

<bo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After investors digested the news that JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM)
will acquire the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns
(NYSE:BSC) for $236 million, or $2 a share - its shares
traded above $170 a year ago - and that the Federal Reserve
had lowered its discount rate another quarter percentage
point Sunday night, stocks seesawed in a mixed day.
What's the problem?
I guess he means American journalese is heading towards SOV?
The subject is "stocks". All the rest of that is tension building
subordinate clauses. "Tension building" because you have to wait
(possibly with baited breath) for the end of the sentence to actually
find out what's going on.

Cf:

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse ...

Cf (1572 AD):

'As armas e os barões assinalados
que da Ocidental praia lusitana,
por mares nunca dantes navegados,
passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
e em perigos e guerras esforçados,
mais do que prometia a força humana,
entre gente remota edificaram
novo reino, que tanto sublimaram,
e também as memórias gloriosas
daqueles reis que foram dilatando
a Fé, o Império, e as terras viciosas
de África e de Ásia andaram devastando,
e aqueles que por obras valerosas
se vão da lei da Morte libertando,
cantando *espalharei* por toda a parte,
se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte'.

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