On 2-Jun-09, at 10:49 AM, Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar wrote: > I don’t see “result” as a process that gives us anything. I see. The subtraction gives us the the result, which itself IS a number. I thought you were pointing out a syntactical problem, not a semantic one. Thank you for the clarification. Best, Brett ----------------------- Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Toronto, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask] To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/