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Thread #100592   Message #2019853
Posted By: Amos
08-Apr-07 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: Please stay on subject !!
Subject: RE: Please stay on subject !!
What IS the subject? That's an interesting question. There was a time when we were all subjects, but now, life is less subjective, because of the Constitution. Of course, some of us are less careful about our constitutions than others, being reckless, which is an old English word related to "reckoning" but not to "wreck" or "wrack", I think.

The thing is , many people prefer the approach of sticking to the predicate, rather than the subject, because they have predicatory natures, and usually also have dangling participles. My own particples dangle, but not dramatically, but I am not predicatory by nature. My grammar was.

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