atw: Re: Particular past tense

it wasn't

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth
Fullerton
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 11:09 AM
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Subject: atw: Re: Particular past tense


that's reasonable if it's single family possessive.
 


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hallett,
Michelle
        Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 10:30 AM
        To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: atw: Re: Particular past tense
        
        
        I've seen "family's" in a design document meant for a customer.
         
        Michelle

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        From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Trussler
        Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 10:25 AM
        To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: atw: Re: Particular past tense
        
        
        "a sufficiently large number of the ignorant can always turn the
tide."
         
        The tide seems to be turning on apostrophes.
        Where I am currently working, a lot of the staff are writing
TV'S, and CD'S in the like, new style.
        What is worrying me is that they are also applying the
apostrophe to all plurals.
        So we now get  
              the PC'S are on the table's, and the plug's are in the
socket's.
         
        Like Malcolm Turnbull, I don't quite understand this democracy
thing.
        Bob T 
        
        
         
        On 4/27/07, Daryl Colquhoun <atw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

                Oh dear. Sorry about that mishap with the previous post.
                
                Michael:
                >Ah, yes. The power of democracy. Never mind the facts;
a sufficiently large 
                number of the ignorant can always turn the tide.
                
                But at least that large number (based on my sample of 5)
have the good grace
                to be talking about something other than the subject of
this discussion,
                which I now propose to subvert. It seems the "present
perfect continuous", 
                according to the websites, is what we get when we deploy
that bane of
                English learners, the present participle, thus, *"The
driver has been losing
                control of his truck and he's been ending up in a
creek". Which is plainly 
                not possible here. It works in something like "I've been
studying this
                question all night". And it's different from the plain
present perfect;
                compare "I've washed my car as long as I've owned it"
with the somewhat 
                silly "I've been washing my car as long as I've owned
it".
                
                I take Michael's point about perfect and continuous
being a dichotomy, but
                I've always called this construction with the present
participle 
                "continuous". So this isn't really perfect? Because it's
still happening?
                (In which case I suppose the websites are just
simplifying.)
                
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