Re: Correct Grammar

Subject: Re: Correct Grammar
From: Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 22:07:15 -0500

Charles -- "When" wouldn't work at all, because you need a pronoun here that
refers to those who sat down (and who are now lying dead) on the beach.
This poem is sort of a long-winded way of saying "He who hesitates is lost."

Why do you think "when" has a place here?

--JS


>Here's one for all of you English "Experts". With the following poem:

>"On the beach of indecision
>lay the bleached bones of thousands
>Who with victory in sight
>Sat down to think about it"

>On the third line should the first word be Who or should it be When?




Joanna Sheldon
Technical Writer, Translator
(French, German, Italian)
cjs10 -at- cornell -dot- edu

"One must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested."
Christopher Hitchens


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