>Brad,
   If you don't hear from us, perhaps you should assume that we don't want
to encourage you in your campaign to convince the world that many past
perfect verb phrases are "wrong."
   I suspect these are sentences that orignally had past perfect verb
phrases in them, but have been revised with those changed over.
   Please don't try to trick us back into a conversation we long ago grew
tired of.
   At least be open and honest.

Craig

> What we have here are ten items, gleaned from diverse sources. I'd like to
> know if any of you think any of the sentences in the ten items are
> ungrammatical, and if so, in what respect.
>  
> I'd be much obliged if those who respond would send it to
> [log in to unmask] and not back to ATEG.
>  
> If I don't hear from you, I'll assume you think all ten are correct, that
> they're what you'd teach or, if you don't teach, what you hope would be
> taught as the right way to do it.
>  
> There is no context, there is only what you see. If you beg off based on
> lack of context, you flunk. I will explain why that's so in due course.
>  
> .brad.24jan09.
>  
> 1 - In New York, I met Sam and Mary, the latter a being who is,
> physically, of the lily tribe, but with a human heart and mind.
>  
> 2 - She reflected that, besides flying, one thing she neglected and would
> like now to have done was to learn to swim.
>  
> 3 - His grandfather's dry grip enveloping the end of his arm, David walked
> up Third Avenue, where men were digging for the cloverleaf.
>  
> 4 - The moon passed behind a cloud and the water looked dark and
> malevolent, terribly deep.
>  
> 5 - Perhaps they reminded me, distantly, of myself, long ago. Perhaps they
> reminded me, dimly, of something we lost. 
>  
> 6 - More and more candidly she dressed and undressed by her window, more
> and more overtly he himself leaned out to watch.
>  
> 7 - He found the scent of cheap toilet soap desperately sweet on the air.
>  
> 8 - She had so little washing to do now that she was alone, and she got up
> earlier than usual to get it done, and she got it done earlier than usual
> and then she hung it out.
>  
> 9 - Not only were the furnishings old, intrinsically unlovely, and clotted
> with memory and sentiment, but the room itself in past years served as the
> arena for countless hockey and football games.
>  
> 10 - The trip began in London, where the writer interviewed several
> African students who fled the Soviet Union, where they they claimed they
> suffered all sorts of racial indignities.
>  
>
>
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