Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:01:00 -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:

>  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?

"...sat on a shelf..." was what I meant when I said "has" is redundant;
sorry about that.  I was speaking editorial shorthand.  If you remove
the "has," it reads fine.

--Ted White