>No, your not receiving much mail from ATEG has nothing to do with you. >This is not a very active list -- much less active than an American >Literature list I"ve been on, for example. But put out a >semi-=provocative question out there and you should get some answers. I >began my membership by asking if anybody out there knew of computer >software to help with sentence-diagramming and immediately received lots >of mail, most of it asking why I was wasting my time with >sentence-diagramming, of all things (I still am!). >Welcome! Thanks for the Welcome Michael! I'm glad to know that I am still getting mail! I do have one question that I have yet to find an answer to. Can someone tell me all the grammatical uses of the word "please" other than as a verb? Gretchen