Re: Election Speech Joke

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From: David Garvin
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:45

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> Then he should say "I am glad to see so many people here to hear my
> address. Of course the crowd would be twice as big if I were hung."
> Notice that the last clause is a subjunctive since, by his own
> admission, it is a condition contrary to fact.
> --
True; however, it IS a high school crowd, so the occurance of proper
grammatical use of the subjuntive case is probably rare (including in
the teacher's bar...er...lounge!) :-)
Cheers!

-- 
David Garvin
Oromocto, NB

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