Re: 'Stereotype' thread - evolved.

Subject: Re: 'Stereotype' thread - evolved.
From: Mark Levinson <MarkL -at- gilian -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:32:13 +0200

Bruce writes:
> in my lifetime, the third person
> subjunctive has been changing from "were" to "was" ("If he were/was
> to go down to the woods today..."). A change like this, which
> doesn't affect clarity, doesn't really matter.

In other cases, scrapping the was/were difference would affect
clarity. For example, "What if today's foie gras were made out
of yesterday's pastrami?" versus "What if today's foie gras was
made out of yesterday's pastrami?"

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