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Topics of the day:

  1. either stated or compelled by context (2)

I must entirely agree! 

Scott Catledge

  2. A punctuation challenge (4)

Do you remember "That that is is that that is not is not that that is is not
that that is not that that is not is not that that is"  Even slow classes
can figure this one out.

Scott Catledge
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Date:    Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:45:46 -0700
From:    Brad Johnston <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: either stated or compelled by context

I sent this to an interested party ...
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  Without an indication of timing, either stated or compelled by context,=
 there can be no past perfect.

  ... and he wrote back, "This is indeed one of the subtlest rules of gra=
mmar I=92ve ever encountered (and the first time I=92ve every heard about=
 it)."
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  ATEGians, what do you make of the exchange? Did I not point him in the =
right direction?
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  .brad.15apr08

 between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99       =20
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Date:    Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:37:46 -0400
From:    Linda Di Desidero <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: A punctuation challenge

The first baby that they had had had surgery while still in the womb.

Linda

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Linda Di Desidero, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Assistant Academic Director of Writing

Communication, Arts, and Humanities

University of Maryland University College=20

3501 University Boulevard East

Adelphi, MD  20783-8083

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