Heard on the Maury Show

[Dan Goncharoff]

What is grammatically wrong with the statement?

I can understand not liking the 'sound' of the 'is is', but "[all she
is] is [after your money]" works for me. I would never write it, but I
might say it.

DanG



On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Asked of a "guest" by Maury himself:
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> "You think that all she is is after your money?"
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> IMO, that's right up there with
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> "What's he going to pay? Two men to mean to do the same job?"
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> Not that I think that there's any parallelism. Only that they both
> equally grind my grammar's gears.
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