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Re: Correcting Grammar
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Wanda VanGoor <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:54:53 -0500
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For your #3, maybe I'm missing something, but don't sentences like
these have noun clauses as objects of verbals?
 
  Believing THAT THEY HAD CROSSED THE MISSISSIPPI, the
  travelers rejoiced at having commpleted half their journey.
 
  Not knowing WHAT LAY AHEAD OF THEM contributed greatly to their fear.
 
  Gamblers need to know WHEN TO FOLD UP, WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
 
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