Past Subjunctive

[Jonathan Lighter]

You beat me to it.

JL

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> > Things I Wish I Were Told
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> My vote goes to
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> Things I Wish I Had Been Told
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> 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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