Brad Johnston wrote: /"Tom spent his summer weekends at his lake cottage that he had built in 1995." /Question: Who built the cottage? Tom or someone else? Tom built it himself. If he had had someone build it, he would have written "/Tom spent //his summer weekends at his lake cottage that he had had built in 1995." (/Of course, if that is indeed the meaning, he could just as easily have written, instead, /"Tom spent his summer weekends at his lake cottage that he built in 1995." Gerald // / 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/