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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
    AS>  How do you find the grammar in the following de-   
    AS>  scription of an incident from my workplace?   
      
    AS>  A colleaque leans into the doorway of my office   
    AS>  and asks me rather amiably:   
      
    AS>  -- Anton, will you go to lunch with us?   
    AS>  -- Yeah, directly, -- answer I,   
      
    AS>  upon which he leans out, makes a step down the pas-   
    AS>  sage, and exlaims "Oh, fuck" in gunuine anguish.   
      
    AS>  I grew surprised and embarrased because other people   
    AS>  had seen and heard this unexpected reaction to my   
    AS>  harmless answer, and went to investigate.  My col-   
    AS>  league had sworn when he badly struck his shoulder   
    AS>  or elbow upon the door jamb or some such 0structural   
    AS>  element while clearing the doorway :-)   
      
      
              You switched verb tenses there, as I've heard sports commentators   
   do when they tell a radio or TV audience "He shoots -- oh, he missed!"   
      
              Some folks consider it acceptable to introduce a tense change at   
   the beginning of a new paragraph, but AFAIC it's distracting & unpleasant.  I   
   would suggest you pick one or the other & avoid changing horses in   
   midstream....  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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