The altercation started five minutes before the shooting, when the kids phone went dead. You are trying to say that what happened before the on the ground shooting has nothing to do with the shooting. If you do not mind me saying so, that is as silly as hell.
“The ALTERCATION started FIVE minutes before the shooting, when the kids phone went dead. You are trying to say that what happened before the on the ground shooting has nothing to do with the shooting. If you do not mind me saying so, that is as silly as hell.”
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Up thread you suggested another poster use a dictionary. I’d suggest YOU use one.
The following is from a middle school dictionary:
ALTERCATION—”a noisy heated angry dispute”.
So from what source document are you deriving the existence of this 5 minute long noisy, heated angry dispute? Or is that another one of your fairy tales you’re trying (unsuccessfully) to spread here?