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lee
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:00 pm
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I understand that a coordinating conjunction leads to a fresh
clause...however, I was thinking of this structure:
She projects a laid back attitude, but is often nervous.
Someone told me (I have no assurance that they are correct) that the verb
'is' can only come after a conjunction (perhaphs just subordinating) when
leading to a question, e.g. She said it's correct, but is she right?
So if this is the case, what's happening in my first example? Are we just
leaving out the subject for sake of not repeating it? Thanks in advance.
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J. W. Love
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:01 pm
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Someone wrote:
| Quote: | I understand that a coordinating conjunction leads to a
fresh clause...however, I was thinking of this structure:
She projects a laid [sic] back attitude, but is often nervous.
Someone told me (I have no assurance that they are
correct) that the verb 'is' can only come after a conjunction
(perhaphs just subordinating) when leading to a question,
e.g. She said it's correct, but is she right?
So if this is the case,
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It isn't.
| Quote: | what's happening in my first example? Are we just leaving
out the subject for sake of not repeating it?
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We're leaving it out, but for whose sake is uncertain. |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:00 pm
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J. W. Love wrote:
| Quote: | Someone wrote:
I understand that a coordinating conjunction leads to a
fresh clause...however, I was thinking of this structure:
She projects a laid [sic] back attitude, but is often nervous.
Someone told me (I have no assurance that they are
correct) that the verb 'is' can only come after a conjunction
(perhaphs just subordinating) when leading to a question,
e.g. She said it's correct, but is she right?
So if this is the case,
It isn't.
what's happening in my first example? Are we just leaving
out the subject for sake of not repeating it?
We're leaving it out, but for whose sake is uncertain.
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Was the "[sic]" about the missing hyphen? I am wondering whether it should
have been placed after the "back", "laid-back" being a single entity. This
is probably open to argument.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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J. W. Love
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:00 pm
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Skitt wrote:
| Quote: | Was the "[sic]" about the missing hyphen? I am
wondering whether it should have been placed after the
"back", "laid-back" being a single entity.
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Either way, but I like to insert it at the scene of the crime, so as to allow
for more siccing if another malfeasance immediately occurs, as in:
She projects a laid [sic] back [sic] nonchalant
attitude, but is often nervous. |
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Stan Brown
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:03 am
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"lee" <pepplewickREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | I understand that a coordinating conjunction leads to a fresh
clause...however, I was thinking of this structure:
She projects a laid back attitude, but is often nervous.
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This is a good illustration. A coordinating conjunction leads not to
a fresh clause but to a fresh whatever-it-was-that-came before.
In the sentence before, the coord. conj. joins two prepositional-
phrase adjectives. In your sentence, it joins two predicates.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child |
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