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To: jbe who wrote (1128)	4/11/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Robert C. Petersen	Respond to of 4710

Yogananda Berra also stated: " Baseball is 90% physical and 30% mental!!" nysebob2

To: jbe who wrote (1128)	4/12/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

In my view, "and ONLY he" is a parenthetical phrase, and is in the sentence purely for emphasis. That's why I separated the phrase from the rest of the sentence with dashes. And I capitalized "only" to indicate that, in speaking, that word would be stressed. jbe, Yes, I agree (the same answer should be correct no matter whether the "and only he" is surrounded by hyphens, parentheses, or nothing). Jack Clarke calls it an "adjectival reinforcement," and I believe I called it a "package" in my original post. I guess it's interesting to me only because I'm a programmer, and I think about things like natural language technology, and I wonder how in the world computers will ever be able to speak English. Sentences like that one show that synthesis and analysis of natural language seems to require more than just an understanding of grammar.