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Gosh, let's hope the U.S. Supreme Court knows good grammar.

Well, at least we can hope they know the difference between a dependent and independent clause. It kind of helps with reading comprehension. But I guess conjugating verbs would be out of the question for this lot.

[robertpaulsen]

"Well, at least we can hope they know the difference between a dependent and independent clause"

Yeah. I got my fingers crossed. After all, it appears that our only hope for the second amendment is that the USSC knows how to read, huh? I mean, come on. The meaning of the second amendment is so crystal clear -- all they have to do is read the thing.

[JeffAtlanta]

Well, at least we can hope they know the difference between a dependent and independent clause.

To be fair, dependent clauses modify independent clauses. If a person writes a sentence consisting of a dependent and independent clause, the reader can't eliminate the dependent clause and expect the sentence to have the same meaning.