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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
Newsgroups: alt.languages.english
Subject: Re: Is this sentence correct ?
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:41:14 +0000
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On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:04:11 GMT, Miss Elaine Eos
<Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com> wrote:
> In article <slrndpdsna.ldo.chris@ccserver.keris.net>,
> Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net> wrote:
>
>> > Normally, your statements about shall & should are correct but -- in
>> > this instance, I think -- they are used slightly different.
>
>> ".. slightly differently" -- it's an adverb.
>
> Heh, my brain knew that; it just forgot to tell my fingers :)
<g> It is an error which becoming increasingly common, not helped by
the lack of training in grammar in schools (many, posibly most British
teenagers have no idea of the parts of speech at all; even when I was at
school most of our formal grammar was taught in 'foreign' languages and
many didn't realise that they applied to English as well).
Chris C
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