"anOLDun" <anoldun@homecall.co.uk> wrote in message
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As my grandma used to say "I can't learn ya nothin'"

Martik wrote:
My dad used to say "I taught you everything I know and you still don't
know nothing."

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:49:21 -0400 If you fall from a tree,leave your
anger on the branch and then Rôgêr <abuse@your.isp.com> sent this :

I started with nothing and I still have most of it :O



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What trick, what device, what starting-hole on Fri, 28 Oct 2005
05:40:21 GMT, canst thou now find out, to hide "Martik"
<xxxxxxxxxx@yyy.net> from this open and apparent shame?:


No matter how many there ever WERE, the sentence is plural, (the
sentences are/were plural). Even if there were only two. OTOH, if
there WAS only one it would be singular.

If yer hankerin' to say what I rekin' yer tryin' to say, try:

"There were two, then there was one."

Or

"We had us a whole mess of 'em, then we din't have none."


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<SANITARY_PEDESTAL_clause39@yahoo.com_CHEESE_LOG > wrote in message
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The first point is that "none" is a short form of "not one" so is always
singular. The second point is that the verb is in the conditional tense so
is "were". Were it to be (which is subjunctive) the simple past it would
be "was".

What trick, what device, what starting-hole on Fri, 28 Oct 2005
17:14:39 +0100, canst thou now find out, to hide "Geoff Pearson"
<gspearson1647@hotmail.com> from this open and apparent shame?:

Mayhaps but it just don't sound right any other way.

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