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[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:26 AM +0000 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> Microsoft Word grammar checker...passes
>      1. Ask the judge to disallow something.
>      2. Ask the judge disallow something.
>      3. Ask that the judge disallow something.
>
> and correctly objects to
>      4. Ask that the judge disallows something.


I seem to recall hearing that #4 is acceptable in British English.  If so,
is #3 NOT acceptable, or are both o.k.?

Anyone over there care to comment?

Peter Mc.


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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu