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Re: What price glory?
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MC Johnstone <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:45:54 +0300
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Brad Johnston wrote:
> He chimed in with, What's the past perfect?
>  
>
That sounds like your worst nightmare, Brad. I've been reading a 
biography of John Boyd, written by Robert Coram, a journalist for the 
Atlanta Journal Constitution. Coram religiously avoids the past perfect, 
joyously piling simple past upon simple past, and may the reader beware.

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