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[Globutron]

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Arise - rise

Wait - await

etc

I know how to describe the difference in meaning, but not the grammatical reasoning behind it... A prefix for what cause? *rubs chin*

[crossmr]

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[kinerry]

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[Globutron]

[.38 Special]

OK cranky-pants,

Rise - intransitive verb - to get up, wake up, a thing that people and quantities do.

Arise - also intransitive verb - to originate from, to begin being, a thing that people can do, usually poetically, but it is also a thing that barbarian hordes did among the Roman states in Europe, and something that H1N1 did, and Jesus did.

For example: Dr. Frankenstein rises early everyday; his monster arose from a laboratory table.


Wait - can be both transitive or intransitive - you can wait for something, or you can wait upon something; both are the facilitation of expectation.

Await - similar to wait; unlike rise/arise this difference is purely grammatical at the structure level.

Whereas you can "wait for" something, in this case "wait" is intransitive -- "for" is the beginning of a phrase that attaches to the independent clause -- you can only "await" something as a transitive verb that requires a subject of the verb. The exception is in a sort of passive voice, that is something is awaiting somewhere. For example, "Many dangers await Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom." In this case, await can be used as an intransitive verb: "Many dangers await." In this case, the object has been dropped (I don't know the grammar rule for implicit objects). Generally, for the purposes of your students, the intransitive await is pretty unuseful, unless they're getting into pre-Modern poetry and literature.

So...

I am waiting for Bob.
Bob waits for me.
Bob waits tables.
Bob waits.

Bob awaits summer.
Dangers await bob.
Danger awaits.

Hope that helps.

P.s. I didn't use Google. I used a dictionary

[Globutron]

Nah not cranky, I'm almost permanently calm and content. I just like to bite back at the inevitable responses that will come in this forum that are either patronising, a**holish or generally antagonistic - Because of its inevitability.

Who seriously bookmarks a link to a website designed to patronise somebody about the use of google? I can imagine their smug faces when they view their bookmarks, click the top result - google patronising - and then blissfully copies it out for the 900th time, fulfilled that is has, once again, come to their aid.

Anyway, yes that was quite helpful, but I'm interested in the actual A part.

EG the A in Atonal or Asexual is of different origin, as to make something without tone, or without sex.
Arise and Await are different additions from another source, I presume.

Cheers for your time, Smith and Wesson.

[crossmr]