... of fresh rain in a forest in the fall. Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word. In fact, English simply has no single word ... word could be defined in four other ways: in terms of sound structure (i.e. phonologically), in terms of its internal integrity, in terms of meaning (i.e. semantically), or in terms of sentence ... expressing subjunctive infinitive or imperative, respectively. This brings us to the last possible interpretation, namely that (6) may refer to the linking verb BE in general, as we would find...