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Subject: Re: if that be the case
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Fred wrote:
> "mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:be9h665sfhfegqkqsa3bbn2n29o920apqh@4ax.com...
>> First person says
>> "They act that way in order to feel important."
>>
>> I reply:
>> "So? Even if that be the case, if they have some need to feel more
>> important than they already feel, you can be grateful you don't have
>> that need."
>>
>> How do you all take "..if that be the case"?
>>
>> time to think about it....
>
>> x
>> I used it because it's the subjunctive, and iiuc it makes the
>> if-clause even more conditional, more nearly contrary to fact, than
>> "if that is the case".
>>
>> A) Am I right?
>>
> I would stick with 'if that is the case'.
>
Interesting. That strikes me as being something a non-native speaker
would say.
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