2 bees

[Tony A. Wright]

David Tuggy wrote:

> Re _bees, beed_: the following judgment holds for me:
>
>   You be good for Grandma, now, and if you do / ??*are I'll buy you an
>    ice-cream cone.
>
>      "Are" sounds pedantic if not just plain wrong.
>      Anybody concur?
>
>     --David Tuggy

Yes, to me "are" is not just pedantic in this discourse context.  For me,
it's the wrong pro-verb for [be good].  "Do" isn't quite the right
pro-verb either.  I don't think there is a good pro-verb.

--Tony Wright <twright at accdvm.accd.edu>