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From: Egbert White <eggwhite@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: is this sentence correct?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:04:06 -0700
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:08:43 +0100, Einde O'Callaghan
<eindeoc@freenet.de> wrote:
>G. Acharya wrote:
>> is this sentence correct?
>>
>> "Mr X designed Tool Box, available online at zxxyyss.com"
>
>Egbert White has interpreted the word designed as being an adjective. On
>my first reading I saw a complete sentence, but a different one from
>that seen Egbert.
>
>For me Mr. X is the subject of the verb "designed" which is in the
>simple past tense and the thing he designed was "Tool Box", which is
>"available online at ..."
>
>If however you meant to write the sentence seen by Egbert I would say
>that it isn't complete or grammatical (more an entry on a list) - indeed
>it would sound very Germanic and un-English to me.
I agree. My analysis would be valid only if the comma were not there.
>Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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