tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post940584781409277691..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Reason to BecauseBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-7451159109376958492007-01-13T06:49:00.000-05:002007-01-13T06:49:00.000-05:00Right, past perfect — thanks.
And yes, from...Right, past perfect — thanks.<br /><br />And yes, from "Charly". That's what my abbreviated version came from, but I didn't feel like typing the whole thing.<br /><br />:-)Barry Leibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-9841900216682362292007-01-12T20:44:00.000-05:002007-01-12T20:44:00.000-05:00Past perfect (perfect is "have + past participle (...Past perfect (perfect is "have + past participle (-N/ED form)", and progressive is "be + -ING form". (The -ING form here is often called the present participle.)<br /><br />Anyway, how about this one? "That that is, is. That that is not, is not. That that is is not that that is not; that that is not is not that that is. Is that not so? It is!"The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-19114154325881565412007-01-12T10:06:00.000-05:002007-01-12T10:06:00.000-05:00I learned the "had" example a slightly different w...I learned the "had" example a slightly different way, such that it contains one more occurrence of the word:<br /><br />Mary, where John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15198072683770155918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-35087914965390477882007-01-12T09:52:00.000-05:002007-01-12T09:52:00.000-05:00"That that is is."
Yep, sometimes, students have ..."That that is is."<br /><br />Yep, sometimes, students have to hold out when teachers tell them they're wrong. Once in a while, the student's right.<br /><br />The nephew of a friend of mine had one of those, years ago. He was in, I don't know, first or second or third grade, something like that. And they had a quiz on "opposites", where they were given words and had to write each word's opposite.<br /><br />One of the quiz words was "out". David put "safe". David was a sports nut, you see, and was thinking of baseball. The teacher, though, was not thinking of baseball and marked it wrong — of course, the answer she was looking for was "in". But David took the quiz back to her and insisted that he was right too, and explained himself. The teacher changed it to a correct answer.<br /><br />By the way, another good one like "that that" is "had had", which is actually fairly common (for a past progressive tense, or some such (I'm not sure of the correct name)). There's a convoluted and contrived sentence that goes something like this:<br />Mary, where John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had been correct.Barry Leibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-3425450374586678742007-01-11T17:01:00.000-05:002007-01-11T17:01:00.000-05:00I think the reason is because ;-) people get all b...I think the reason is because ;-) people get all bunged up in their sentence structure. My favorite language is public-official-speak. You know, when you get a policeman or a fireman (or woman, not being sexist, although I don't watch much local news and haven't actually seen a woman in this position, but I'm sure it happens) who is suddenly under the lights of the local news station, and they've begun to speak in a way that they think sounds intelligent. Only they can't follow through. It's painful to watch, but funny.<br /><br />It got a second "that" crossed off an essay by my fourth-grade teacher. I had written "that that," and I swear it was grammatically correct. Maybe the sentence could have been worded differently to sound better, but when she crossed out the "that," she changed the meaning. One of those little infractions that your parents shrug off, but apparently stay with you for years. :-PMaggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16681883169121834569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-24871314928030654602007-01-11T10:16:00.000-05:002007-01-11T10:16:00.000-05:00"is is": Hear hear!<i>"is is"</i>: Hear hear!Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15198072683770155918noreply@blogger.com