HSS  +  358034 Mon, 30 Apr 07 03:48 PM Could anyone please help me? This sentence is too long for me. "Louise hoped Peter's day had  positively sucked, for hadn't he ruined hers with his offhand comment, and the possibility of his proving itself true, Peter's day sucking, didn't feel so very farfetched, for Louise guessed with the certainty of a champion that Peter wasn't getting laid any more than she was." This is about a woman, Louise, who divorced Peter, a high-visibility professor. I just don't see the functionality of the "for hadn't ... comment" clause. Hiro HSS Joined on Wed, Nov 16 2005 Sendai, Japan Regular Member 681 JH7JHH, First Class ham radio operator. N9COW in the US. Clauses

	Marius Hancu  +  358038 Mon, 30 Apr 07 03:56 PM This is a rhetorical question: ... for/because hadn't he ruined hers with his offhand comment? asking for confirmation from the reader. Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673

	HSS  +  358080 Mon, 30 Apr 07 04:56 PM Then doesn't the author need to place a question mark here, stop the sentence and pick it up with another? Wouldn't it be better? Hiro HSS Question Marks

	HSS  +  358322 Tue, 01 May 07 01:59 AM Oh, I see, Marius. I unknowingly omitted "in the moment" in the sentence. Normally "moment" is with "at." How would you say "in the moment"? Why "in"? " ... for Louise guessed with the certainty of a champion that Peter wasn't getting laid any more in the moment than she was." Best wishes, Hiro HSS