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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/19/2022 9:49 AM, Will Martin
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I’ve always interpreted the wording of this section to be
carefully intentional. I’ll add emphasis:
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<div class="">“The adverbial MAY actually follow the object noun…"</div>
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<div class="">That doesn’t suggest that it has to.</div>
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<div class="">My personal interpretation of this is that there
could be a subtle layering of emphasis:</div>
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<div class="">DaH HaqwI’ yISam! Find the surgeon now! (Simple
command)</div>
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<div class="">DaH HaqwI’’e’ yISam! Find the SURGEON now! (Emphasis
on what you need to find)</div>
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<div class="">HaqwI’’e’ DaH yISam! THE SURGEON! FIND THE SURGEON
NOW! (I’m talking to you about a surgeon. It’s all about the
surgeon. Think surgeon. Not plumber. Not gunner. Surgeon.
Surgeon, surgeon, surgeon. Find the friggin’ surgeon NOW.</div>
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<div class="">The next layer of emphasis would be to clip it:</div>
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<div class="">HaqwI’’e’ Sam! (Typically, a line delivered with a
disruptor pointed between your eyes.)</div>
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<p>I think you're misreading the <i>may.</i> It doesn't mean "the
adverbial might follow the object noun, but it doesn't have to."
It means "despite the normal order of adverbials before the
object, there is a special circumstance where the object may come
first."</p>
<p>Both forms emphasize the surgeon as the focus. The version with
the fronted object is more emphatic, not because your need for the
surgeon is more acute, but because you've isolated the noun by
fronting it.</p>
<p>It's the difference between</p>
<p><i>Find the SURGEON now!</i></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><i>The SURGEON! Find him/her now!</i></p>
<p>I think it's no coincidence that the version with the fronted
object is exactly identical to a sentence with the surgeon as a
topic with no other grammatical role. There's basically no
difference between that and saying <i>As for the surgeon, find
him/her now!</i><br>
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