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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">Mike,</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">In my experience I don't think you have asked a valid question, i.e. </font><font size=3 face="Courier New">"what is the most<br>
NATURAL way to make an observation of someone dropping something, to call that person's attention to it? Not what is possible, but the most common way of saying it."</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Courier New">What is most natural when you assume it was done intentionally and what is most natural when you assume it was done unintentionally are two different things.</font><font size=3 face="sans-serif"> John Roberts pointed out that 'drop' in English has both senses, and I could assume that your professor was being intentional enough that his students were reflecting his intentionality. However, even if he made it appear unintentional and the students reflected that use, they could still have used the same phrase in an unintentional unacusatory sense.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">In Pacoh there are three choices and the most natural is based on whichever of the choices one assumes: 1) you did it intentionally (accusatory), 2) you did it unintentionally (not accusatory), or 3) it happened, i.e. 'pen' as subject.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">Dick</font>
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