The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55208   Message #856851
Posted By: Peter T.
01-Jan-03 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy new year - it can only get better!
Subject: RE: BS: Happy new year - it can only get better!
Simple Carol. Take an ordinary set of sentences such as "Guest is an unmannerly cur. Also, he is a swine." "Also" here means, "in addition". When put at the end of a sentence, however, it is not clear what its antecedent is. Hence the problem. To say, "Guest was run over by a bus also" could mean not that he was run over by a bus as were you, but that Guest was run over by something as well as a bus, i.e. over and above a bus. To whit: "I wish that he were run over by a tram, and also by a bus." Happy New Year Also. yours, Peter T.