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08-23-2006, 02:56 PM
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#2821
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Doomed to spinsterhood
Hmmm. So women who enter the world of working men and do well, tend to start acting like...men?
Yes, I'm being sexist here. I'm doing it tongue in cheek.
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08-23-2006, 02:56 PM
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#2822
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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GRR
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
my last home had a JW family living at the end of the block. they would have meetings where bunches of them came over, I think carrying a red book. I never did get to know them. it's not like you can invite them over for drinks.
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Why not?
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08-23-2006, 02:58 PM
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#2823
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Rose City 'til I Die
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Thanks
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Originally posted by taxwonk
It has, however, become his primary posting mode.
I guess you should have followed the winery chick after all, Ollie.
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You got me. Jealousy. If only I was a struggling solo with a bad heart, instead of running Hood to Coast while trying to figure out how to spend my next distribution. Sighhhhhhh.
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08-23-2006, 03:00 PM
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#2824
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
Posts: 8,197
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by taxwonk
He enters
They enter
The verb follows the subject, not the object.
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No. His proposed sentence is in the subjunctive mood. "We write to request that the client enter..."
It's unclear whether the second "stipulate" is to be done by "your client" or by "we" (as fringey suggested). Either way, it's "stipulate."
Last edited by robustpuppy; 08-23-2006 at 03:06 PM..
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08-23-2006, 03:01 PM
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#2825
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Consigliere
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pelosi Land!
Posts: 9,480
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Grammar question
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Penske_Account
2. I once had a paralegal who argued an obscure rule of grammar with me. We discussed it and I dismissed his PoV. A few weeks later he sent me a memo documenting that he was correct.
Shortly thereafter he was fired.
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How were his sushi recommendations? |
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08-23-2006, 03:01 PM
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#2826
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 12,057
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GRR
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why not?
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Because they were black.
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
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08-23-2006, 03:01 PM
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#2827
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
Posts: 14,167
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Huh
Quote:
Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
So this go 'round, Survivor will start off with 4 tribes divided by race.
Anybody think this is a good idea?
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When did Thomas Sowell become a studio exec?
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08-23-2006, 03:02 PM
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#2828
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
How were his sushi recommendations?
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Oh! Don't eat the swordfish! Too much mercury. |
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08-23-2006, 03:06 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 17,177
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Which is correct:
a) We write to request that your client enters into certain stipulations . . . and stipulates to the following
or
b) We write to request that your client enter into certain stipulations . . . and stipulate to the following
Please no wise-ass comments -- looking for a serious answer here.
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Well, b sounds better to me, but looking at it, the subject of "enter" is "client," suggesting that the singular "enters" and "stipulates" would be correct. But I am not the resident grammarian. |
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08-23-2006, 03:07 PM
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#2830
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corner Office
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by Adder
But I am not the resident grammarian.
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and right in the middle of typing this sentence what should have occured to you?
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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08-23-2006, 03:07 PM
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#2831
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
Posts: 8,197
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Grammar question
Quote:
Originally posted by Adder
Well, b sounds better to me, but looking at it, the subject of "enter" is "client," suggesting that the singular "enters" and "stipulates" would be correct. But I am not the resident grammarian.
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If only you were. |
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08-23-2006, 03:08 PM
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#2832
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
Posts: 6,201
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
No. His proposed sentence is in the subjunctive mood. "We write to request that the client enter..."
It's unclear whether the second "stipulate" is to be done by "your client" or by "we" (as fringey suggested). Either way, it's "stipulate."
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CoRRECT.
Isn't str8 Canadian? Doesn't he know French? English subjunctive is the infinitive, and is equivalent to romance-language subjunctive.
Last edited by dtb; 08-23-2006 at 03:10 PM..
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08-23-2006, 03:10 PM
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#2833
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by dtb
CoRRECT.
Isn't str8 Canadian? Doesn't he know French? English subjunctive is the infinitive, and is equivalent to romance language subjunctive.
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20 minutes.
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08-23-2006, 03:13 PM
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#2834
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It's all about me.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?
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Grammar question
Quote:
Originally posted by dtb
CoRRECT.
Isn't str8 Canadian? Doesn't he know French? English subjunctive is the infinitive, and is equivalent to romance-language subjunctive.
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This is fascinating, of course. (yawn)
But I am hard to entertain.
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08-23-2006, 03:13 PM
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#2835
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Thanks
Quote:
Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
You got me. Jealousy. If only I was a struggling solo with a bad heart, instead of running Hood to Coast while trying to figure out how to spend my next distribution. Sighhhhhhh.
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Yeah, but I've got good hair and legs, and I-bankers love me. They wear shirts with French cuffs, you know.
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