Was that he was guilty obvious?

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Was that he was guilty obvious?"

> Do you find the above sentence grammatical or ungrammatical?


It sounds grammatical to me, FWIW. Essentially, like a
more-couth/more-academic/classier/more-gentile way of phrasing,

"Was it obvious that he was guilty?"

emphasizing _obvious_ in both cases.

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that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
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