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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!hersch
- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:51:49 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92359.205149HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: An apology
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- In article <92358.194517CLINDSAY@vma.cc.nd.edu>, <CLINDSAY@vma.cc.nd.edu> says:
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- >I have a question unrelated to this subject line.
- >In the sentence, "She felt someone tug her coat" what justifies
- >the form "tug"? Is it a subjunctive perhaps?
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- No. It's an infinitive. And there's nothing weird about it at all.
- I heard him scream. I saw someone fall. She heard me belch.
- I heard her belch. They heard him vomit. We let him twist in the
- wind. What "justifies" these? Nothing in particular, except grammar.
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- H.
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- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
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