"Peter Moylan" <invalid@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote in message
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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.
Interesting. Then how about 'that being the case'?
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