First of all, thanks to everybody who participated in the analysis of this
sentence.  I'm sure the student who wrote the line will get a kick out of
the fact that his creation was the subject of such interesting debate!

For the record, he was describing his bulldog, and the sentence fit in
beautifully in the overall context of the paragraph.

And no, Craig, I haven't disappeared.  I have just dropped back into the
woodwork for a while, watching everything with great interest, however.

This listserv is a fabulous resource, and I am grateful to everybody for
making it be so.

John

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