Thanks for sending Jespersen. He won't help you so you'll have to look to one of the others -- Biber maybe, Cowan no, Greenbaum maybe, Huddleston no, Quirk maybe, Garner barely.

 

.brad.daythree.11apr09.

 

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[log in to unmask]" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] wrote:   It's O.K. to copy. Maybe you can agree with Jespersen.   .brad.daytwo.10apr09.   ~~~~~~~~ [log in to unmask]" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] wrote:   Then I guess we don't communicate.  I will send you the chapter from Jespersen I promised and have been delayed in.  Beyond that, I see no point in continuing this. Herb   ~~~~~~~~   [log in to unmask]" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] wrote:   You have no "standing" with me and will not have until you define and illustrate the past perfect in this forum. I will not respond to the substance of anything you write on the subject of the past perfect until you demonstrate precisely your understanding of it. If you can do it, do it. This is the end of Day One of your holdout. .brad.09apr09.