Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:22:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Best Dramatic... Not
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 07:34 PM 9/2/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
>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.

"...sat on a shelf..." would have worked too.  Is it just redundant?  Or is
it more serious than that?

I never did learn the rules of grammar...I got good grades in English class
by being able to tell when it was wrong, and how to fix it, not by being
able to cite chapter and verse on what the violations were.  "Has sat" set
off the "not right" alarm, but I wasn't sure why, exactly.  Just struck me
as sort of like the past tense of "brought"...

>The editor should have
>caught it, but no one is very literate these days....

Well, most aren't.  I think I'm at least semi-literate though.

-- Mike B.

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