[Ads-l] "been" deletion

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It was never observed.


At first.I thought the problem was that this sentence should be:

"It has never been observed."

I regret the error. :-(

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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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