Television Without Pity Quote (Grammar)
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Because everyone's gone all grammatical in the past week, I thought this was appropriate.
Miss Alli in her Amazing Race recap this week says:
"They close with one of my favorite grammatical forms, the irrelevant-disjunctive, when they say that people will think they're ditzy, but it's a game."
I'm hereby applying for the irrelevant-disjunctive to be an actual tense. I'll settle for it just being a mood, like the subjunctive, but really, it's so much more useful than that.
Favorite examples?
Miss Alli in her Amazing Race recap this week says:
"They close with one of my favorite grammatical forms, the irrelevant-disjunctive, when they say that people will think they're ditzy, but it's a game."
I'm hereby applying for the irrelevant-disjunctive to be an actual tense. I'll settle for it just being a mood, like the subjunctive, but really, it's so much more useful than that.
Favorite examples?
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Date: 2005-03-08 04:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
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