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Thursday, 25 November 2010
The Australian 24th November, 2010
Doesn't Glenn Stevens have "the task of denying":
and is the government(ment) intending to deliver a curriculum to query its competence, or should there be a comma in that sentence:
Yes yes and yeserty yes. Perhaps the author was aiming for the subjunctive* in the final text - "...back the government's bill in the Senate should it accept the ammendment." but then forgot half-way.
* Isn't it? Once again I haven't got time to make sure.
Yes yes and yeserty yes. Perhaps the author was aiming for the subjunctive* in the final text - "...back the government's bill in the Senate should it accept the ammendment." but then forgot half-way.
ReplyDelete* Isn't it? Once again I haven't got time to make sure.
For the subjunctive, it might have to be 'might' instead of 'would'
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