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Joe Carillo

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You know it’s there but you don’t see and hear it
« on: February 28, 2010, 07:45:57 AM »
Is the grammar of this sentence correct? “From the language standpoint, of course, the situation then and now are largely the same.” Maybe there’s a subject-verb disagreement there? A San Francisco-based Filipino who tutors foreign students in English wondered, so he consulted his sister, a Hong Kong-based Filipino journalist and an English tutor herself. She then passed on the question to me. Check out my answers in You Asked Me This Question and discover the world of elliptical sentence constructions.

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« Last Edit: March 28, 2010, 07:27:39 AM by Joe Carillo »