Reply: [ihc] Proper Tow Strap Grammer

[Ted Borck <tborck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Ryan Moore wrote:

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> > : -----Original Message-----
> > : From: John Hofstetter [mailto:hofs@domain.elided]

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> > : Write on the board 1000 times, the singular subject must have
> > : the singular verb.
> >
> > This is water off a duck's (or is it ducks'?) back here, John!  I
> > don't know a predicate adjective from an anteceded pronoun - or even
> > if any of those things are possible! %^} Grammar was, without a doubt,
> > my *very worst* subject in, errr, ahhh, "grammar" school. Likewise, I
> > failed Latin (and the
> <snip>
> > Later,
> >
> > --Pete
> >
>
> Just FYI...  I believe he was responding to his own post and talking to
> himself in the third person singular as he reprimanded himself for the
> grammatical error in said post.
>
> John, see what happens when you talk to yourself in the third person? :)
>
> -Ryan


Pluperfect future optative?

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