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Jane Saral <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:06:19 -0400
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    My puppy chewed up your slippers. Which I know you loved.

By his intonation, a speaker could make clear whether he is referring
in the second clause to the slippers or in a sarcastic way to the act of
having the slippers chewed up.  A reader might not be so sure.

Jane Saral
Westminster Schools
Atlanta, GA

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