Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:34:18 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Best Dramatic... Not
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:

[...]
>
>  Sounds pretty bad...so does this bit from early in the review:
>
>  ..."A Sound of Thunder" has sat on a shelf at Warner Bros. ...
>
>  Is it just me, or is there something wrong with the grammar there?
>  "has sat"??

"Has" is redundant.  "Has been sitting" would have worked, and no doubt
the writer crossed the two phrases in his mind.  The editor should have
caught it, but no one is very literate these days....

--Ted White