Brett,

My apologies.  I should have waited a bit before sending my last message.

Herb

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brett Reynolds
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An editing oversight resulted in the following:

> See the paper linked to above for reasons why -N'T should be considered an inflectional ending (or "clitic" in technical terms).

This is, of course, backwards. It is the contraction viewpoint that has -N'T as a clitic, not the inflection viewpoint. 

Apologies,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Toronto, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask]

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