Dear Gram Negative, I have just figured that there is method in his madness that he will ultimately reveal. In the meantime, you might exercise your right to hit the delete button.
  Jane Saral.
   
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    Dear Jane Saral. Thanks for your vote of confidence. This forces me out of sequence but since she is that annoyed and can't find her delete button, here is, for the gruntled and disgruntled alike, the results of my recent survey.
   
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  Results of "They are amazed" and "John is upset".
   
  Dear Grammarians.
   
  Thanks to those who replied. The numbers are percentages and don't quite add up
  because of rounding. I find them fascinating and will be interested to know what these results mean to you.
   
      %
 
  (  16  )  They are amazed. They never heard of this song.
   
  (  82  )  They are amazed. They have never heard of this song.
   
  (   6   )  They were amazed. They never heard of this song.
   
  (  93  )  They were amazed. They had never heard of this song.
   
   
  (  45  )  John is upset because his application was turned down.
   
  (  55  )  John is upset because his application has been turned down.
   
  (  37  )  John was upset because his application was turned down.
   
  (  64  )  John was upset because his application had been turned down.
   
   
  .brad.13feb08.
    
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  Gram Marian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
     
  unless, that is, you can actually come up with something interesting and constructive to say.
   
  I showed you something above that you may find interesting and constructive. I await your conclusions as to what it means. I'll tell you my conclusions after I hear yours, since the anxious always take precedence.
   
  PS. "a", "e", "i", "o" and "u" are considered vowel sounds in the English language, not consonants.
   
  Wul, whudaya no bout thet. Tie-poe dewley notud. I doo bee sarrie, ma'am.


       
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