Past Subjunctive
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jul 2 21:32:49 UTC 2012
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> Things I Wish I Were Told
My vote goes to
Things I Wish I Had Been Told
which I was taught to regard as a PST SUBJ, back in the '40s. But
there've been many shifts in opinion, since then. YMMV.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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