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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1601)11/21/1998 6:35:00 PM
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You're a man after my own heart, Jack. Have you noticed the suddenly ubiquitous double-is, as in, "The thing is, is that...," and the substitution of "may" for "might," as in, "If she hadn't arrived early, she may never have met her twin sister."

But "hadn't" is disappearing (I think we called that tense the pluperfect when I was studying Latin; is that right, anyone? ) and now the sentence would likely be, "If she wouldn't have arrived early, she may never have met her twin sister."
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