Don't worry Bill; my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek. As you may have noticed, I have quickly overcome my fear of posting. Mieke > Yikes! The last thing I want to do is make people > nervous about using their own language. I write overlapping > sentences, too. I only pointed out the syntactical problem > in Rebecca's sentence to show that we do the same things that > our students do; we just do it less often and notice it more > often in time to edit out the problem. --Bill Murdick >