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To: Ben Barrack

“Does Anthony Weiner’s Mother-in-Law Support his Raping her Daughter?”

Are you not a native speaker of English?

“...his raping her daughter.”

“Does... support” is the present tense, not the conditional. That means the raping, a gerund, has happened. The sentence means it is the case now. You are saying the rape is over and done with.

If you had inserted the adverb “potentially” in from of the gerund “raping,” your meaning would be clear.

Or if you had said “Would” — the conditional, making it speculative, instead of “Does,” you would sound less like a malignant community organizer bent on smearing people.

You obfuscated on purpose, and now you’re sore that people who know what they’re talking about in matters of syntax and grammar are calling you on it.

Let it go. And you should voluntarily pull this stupid thread.


24 posted on 07/04/2012 4:38:27 PM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: Blue Ink

You’re arguing Syntax while the White House has been infiltrated?

That’s like arguing with a fireman who says, “Get out, the house are on fire.”

Wake up.


25 posted on 07/04/2012 5:31:31 PM PDT by Ben Barrack (Let's Talk About Something Important!)
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