in reply to Re: Parsing english
in thread Parsing english

Time flies like an arrow?

How about:   Fruit flies like a banana

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Re: Re: Re: Parsing english
by kiat (Vicar) on May 17, 2004 at 02:14 UTC
    Interesting example :)

    1) Fruit flies the way a banana flies. ('like' as conjunction)

    2) Fruit flies like (e.g. the taste of) a banana. ('like' as verb)

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