a.. From: "Michael Lewis" <mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> b.. To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> c.. Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:51:12 +1000 Ah, yes. The power of democracy. Never mind the facts; a sufficiently large number of the ignorant can always turn the tide. I think that's why we've been stuck with John Howard for . . . what seems like forever! > -----Original Message----- > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Hunt > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:39 PM > To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: atw: Re: Particular past tense > > > Um, some seem to disagree. A Web search on "present perfect > continuous" turns up an alleged 110,000 entries. the phrase is > popular, at least. > > JH > > > On 26 Apr 2007, at 10:33 PM, Michael Lewis wrote: > > > James Hunt: > > > >> Well, I'm not anybody's esteemed whatever, but this looks rather like > >> the present perfect continuous tense . . . > > > > Umm -- sorry, but perfect and continuous are a dichotomy; either it's > > finished and done with or it's still going on (from the perspective of > > whatever the primary tense is)! > > > > Michael Lewis > > ------------------- ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************