On Wednesday 01 December 2010 05:55:44 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20101130_183342, John Hasler wrote: > > Cybe R. Wizard writes: > > > Having been taught the same rule, I also find the sentence nonsensical > > > and for that same reason. > > > > I was also taught that rule.
It looks to me as though the reactions to the original email can be used to distinguish accurately between the Americans and English among us! ;-) And before anyone reacts, I mean "English". The Scots, Welsh and Irish among us probably use yet another structure (or other structures). I didn't actually get my grammar book out. (And this is conversation, not literary, so even my teachers would have accepted "didn't" for "did not".) So I await the shots. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012011234.30920.lisi.re...@gmail.com