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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2088)	3/11/2002 2:17:16 PM
From: E	Respond to of 21057

Absquatulate is lovely! Let's use it all the time so it will stay in our heads. The misplaced modifier section looks good, too. quinion.com I got first an email and then a call from a screenwriter yesterday asking me this: Just checking a grammar question. A line from the stage directions in my screenplay reads: "She too wishes there were a weepy parent to embrace." Or should it read "She too wishes there was a weepy parent to embrace." ? So I replied: It's the subjunctive, in this case, so it's 'were.' But here's a question: Does someone else wish there were a weepy parent to embrace? Or does someone else have a weepy parent to embrace, and 'she' wishes that she, too, had a weepy parent to embrace? The way you sent it to me means the first. Just calling that to your attention in case you mean the second! And got a phonecall because he didn't see any difference. He's a writer who went to a good school. It is very surprising. This should actually be in Spelling and Grammar, but I blame you because you started it with bloviate.... I am going to absquatulate now.