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<div> <font size="3">Then: "</font><font size="3">He has three horses, two brown dogs, and cats." Question: What color are the cats?</font></div>
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To: DAVID MASSEY <dave1massey@cs.com><br>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 9:45 am<br>
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<div>Brown of course, same as the dogs.
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<div dir="ltr">“Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......” M.Murphy</div>
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<div> <font size="3">OK. "He has three horses, two brown dogs and cats." Question: What color are the cats?</font><br clear="none">
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<div>Don’t forget the Oxford comma, drive me nuts</div>
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<div class="yiv2135061894MsoNormal">I’m an uptight New Englander who was taught
English grammar by nuns who had sticks. 8-). Face Book,
was the first place I’d seen this usage. Now it appears in a
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<div class="yiv2135061894MsoPlainText">“Needs Restored like that one.”</div>
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<div class="yiv2135061894MsoPlainText">I look at that and first wonder, needs
restored what? Then deep in the recesses of my mind, I hear
Sister Thomasina saying “You will write ‘needs to be
restored’ 100 times on the blackboard. When you are done, you
will write ‘needs restoration’ 100 times as well.” </div>
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<div class="yiv2135061894MsoPlainText">So, since it is not a Triumph question,
if people want to answer privately, super. Do you use this
sentence construction habitually? In what part of the country
do you live? I was not an English major. I’m definitely not a
great writer and don’t spell everything correctly, but I’m
extremely curious to find out the extent of the usage and this
is a nice friendly group who may be able to help me. </div>
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<div class="yiv2135061894MsoPlainText">Let’s hear it for fluif.</div>
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