Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:41:03 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Best Dramatic... Not
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 9/2/2005 7:34:18 PM >>>
>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....

... or perhaps, the writer having seen the movie in question, had his
brain turned to pea soup...

mjw
>
>--Ted White