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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: "Nous aussi on aimerait bien" -- (2 Subjects in a sentence?)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:48:20 +1300
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On 17/11/2024 9:19 a.m., HenHanna wrote:
> "Nous aussi on aimerait bien"
> 
>   Nous aussi, on aimerait bien que tu nous laisses une place.
> 
> 
>   ------------  more proper to put a comma after [aussi] ?
> 
> 
>  From a English-Grammar POV, it seemed odd to have
> two Subjects in a sentence.  So i've decided to view
>                     [Nous aussi]  as  parenthetical. (so the Comma
> helps)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________
> 
>   Nous aussi on veut des vacances
> "nous aussi on t'aime"
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> 
> 
>     [Nous aussi] -- always pron. with liaison ?
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> 
> (note how (Hibou and)  i tend to put a space before a question mark.)

You could call [Nous aussi] a topic, which a lot of linguists would do.
Notice that the verb agrees with 3rd person singular [on], not with [nous].