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To: Rambi who wrote (1035)	4/2/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 4711

Okay guys, you really have me sitting the fence on this one now! About the intransitive nature of think; I think the converse! (Hee hee) I do hold with the idea that "think" can be used in special circumstances as a transitive verb, just like "dream". Thanks to Claude for pointing this out. Where I'm now less certain is sentence structure. "Are you who you are?" is our reference item, our point of consensus. Now "Are you who[m]I think you are?" (notice my uncertainty, as I try to balance my unconditional respect for the panel assembled here with the axiomatic truth that I am right) - how should we diagram this sentence? Does the "who go with "think" or "are"? If this is a variant on "Are you who you are?" (in which case, I will accede and add my weight to that pan of the balance which favors the shorter, more euphonious construction) then what is the nature of the now-orphaned clause "I think"? "I try to think, and nothing happens!"

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