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Re: grammar term SOLVED

Subject: Re: grammar term SOLVED
From: Dan Roberts <DRoberts -at- ISOGON -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:55 -0400

Title: RE: grammar term SOLVED

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. I finally got enough prompts so that I was able to dredge up "relative pronoun with a vague antecedent."

And, to modify Mark's simile a bit, using this construction is like putting Vanna White on stage and giving her nothing to display. <g>

Dan Roberts
droberts -at- isogon -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark L. Levinson [mailto:mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL]

> The word "this" is like the woman in the sequinned gown who draws
> your attention to the new Kelvinator on TV.  ...
> But the point is that she's best left standing
> in all her glamor next to one important item; you can't send her
> scurrying from place to place within a single sentence.

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