We're all just trying to get through life without the subjunctive.
That is the pluperfect subjunctive innit? I never quite grasped that
one.
Andrew Fildes
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On 14/11/2009, at 10:51 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Yes, but I omitted the subject so it was shorthand ... ;-)
>
> ... but I do hate it when the BBC gets that wrong, e.g. "A man was
> tried for murdering his wife." It should be "... for having
> murdered his wife."
>
> Chris
>
> On 14 Nov 2009, at 10:53, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
>> That would be "having been wrong", Chris, no?
>>
>> Piers
>
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