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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Frightening. I said this to a person I was flirting with a few weeks ago. It came out something like, "I appreciate that you properly used the subjunctive. This is one of the reasons we get along so well. Let's make out."
I am not kidding even a little bit.
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If you had written "I appreciate your properly using the subjunctive," I would ask you to make out right now.
(To be clear, ABBA's sentence is correct as written. I simply like economy and the proper use of whatever that "your ... using" form is called [ possessive gerund or some such? Dtb?].)
