One innocent in prison is a greater injustice than one guilty walking free.

But I bet you can´t look from the mirror like us?

Don’t you bother your pretty head with the distribution between nouns and adjectives, Mavili. They are all the same. hasta means as well ‘a sick person’ as ‘sick’. They are both nominal phrases. That’s what is important.

Because.

Because sentences are either verbal or nominal. In a verbal sentence the predicate consists of a verbal phrase:

         Ali koş|tu. = SUBJ + verb + tense marking

In a nominal sentence the predicate consists of a noun phrase plus a copula. The copula is the verb ‘to be’ with no independent meaning of its own, just connecting this nominal phrase to the subject.

         Ali postacı|ydı. = SUBJ + noun + copula

The Turkish copula in nominal sentences is the old *ermek > i –mek which in the past tense takes the form idi. Henry explained the rules which you have to follow when attaching idi to the nominal phrase.

Basically it is a question of sentence type, whether you are telling what the subject is doing (verbal sentence) or what the subject is (nominal sentence). I try to keep these two separate in my mind not to mix with the constituents.

How can you ever say it and not laugh?

It´s funny how some languages have a more dynamic view on goal-directed actions like these while others see them more static. In my mother tongue we read "from the book", search for the lost item "from the wardrobe" and look "from the window". We are so dynamic and ahead of our time.

Thank you for the answers.

Future significance. That´s easy to remember. Thank you, scalpel.

I like this view. Like it´s actually the article that gives the status of an adjective.

The way you get irritated from bad language is becoming a legend, scalpel. My example was from a book. I´m sure you don´t want to know which book. Call me snobbish but I don´t take any native talk as information and when I ask I ask the best only.

Because...someone or something whispered me that present continuous is often used for future events also, especially if they are planned and scheduled. It sometimes takes the place of the English future. But obviously not here.

But cemiroz´s sentence I have already conserved in my handbag. This use of participle I could never have thought of myself.

Great. It makes sense to me. Thank you, cemiroz, and welcome to the Forum.

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