<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by K Adelberg:
OK Mr. Mumford, back to school and sentence diagrams.
That, would be the subject.
was, would be the verb!
the rest, well you get the idea. You no know english good!
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Oh man! Lil' Whoadie, you've outdone yourself this time. This is perhaps your most epic MENSA post of all time. Mumdodge stated that the sentence "PRECEEDING" (sic.), "Well, that was plain English," had no verb. The preceding sentence read, "Perhaps a linguistics class in order." In that sentence you were indeed lacking a verb, i.e., "is."
Memo to Lil' Whoadie: "preceding" means to take place before something else. For example: "In the preceding paragraph I explained several elementary grammatical ideas that completely escaped Lil' Whoadie." Or perhaps more to your liking, "Preceding his **** on Paul's ****, Kenny made sure to pack a fat bowl."
Memo #2 to Lil' Whoadie: "sic." does not describe the feeling you get when a piss yellow '90 IROC passes you in turn 5 at Willow Springs, it is instead another high level grammatical device that you need not worry about for now.
Drop the sentence diagrams and stick to the corner entry/exit diagrams.
WAR SECOND GRADE ENGLISH!!
Ot.