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MrPedantic

#156200 Tue, 08 Nov 05 12:00 AM

I don't think you can use the simple past, if one of the speakers has a décolleté.

MrP

MrPedantic

Joined on Wed, Oct 13 2004

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...opella forensis / adducit febris...

Simple Past

pieanne

#156344 Tue, 08 Nov 05 11:11 AM

Shall we say "a perfect past"?

pieanne

Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005

South of France ...But I'm Belgian!

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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

Tallulah Tam

#156389 Tue, 08 Nov 05 01:55 PM

They MAY have fallen out!

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Joined on Sun, Jul 17 2005

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If at first you don't succeed sky-diving is not for you.

pieanne

#156403 Tue, 08 Nov 05 02:45 PM

Then it would be an "imperfect past" Crying [:'(]

pieanne

MrPedantic

#156653 Wed, 09 Nov 05 12:41 AM

One of the speakers has a décolleté? And they may have fallen out?

Tongue Tied [:S]

(Where was this hotel, again?)

MrP

MrPedantic

Tallulah Tam

#157162 Thu, 10 Nov 05 01:33 PM

"His brow was sweating as he looked across the room at her especially now that they had fallen out and he longed to know her. He found himself rising, but then to his dismay saw that his gerund was dangling, so he swiftly sat down again on his present participle."

Tallulah Tam

Gerunds

pieanne

#157179 Thu, 10 Nov 05 02:14 PM

I hope he managed to fix his gerund? Tongue Tied [:S]

pieanne

Gerunds

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