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Re: [L-OT] Re: Gramama's grammmar, gams n'yams...

2003-09-03 by Hendrik Jan Veenstra

On a fine day, 03-09-2003, Peter Duemmler wrote:

>Guys, please stop the war.
>My question is answered (at least for me).
>I´m not asking any more questions here when I have to fear some people here
>shooting each other answering them...

Hey Peter, don't sweat it.  It's no war and nobdoy's shooting 
anybody.  The fact that the occasional individual might get upset 
about totally irrelevant things shouldn't stop you from posting 
whichever questions (or answers) you might have.

And to pour some more gasoline on the fire: someone claimed that 
"[Here] is behaving as a singular item - as evidenced by "comes"."

Uhm... "here come P&M": in that sentence the subject surely is P&M, 
right, and not 'here'?  So it's "P&M"s singularity or plurality that 
determines the form of the verb.  "Here" has nothing to do with it. 
And no, you don't have to be native English in order to grasp the 
fundamental of international (western) grammar-rules.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/

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