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Rex Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Has to be served

0The board has the power to dismiss Mr Wolfowitz, and will meet again on Wednesday to consider his fate. 02br
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00"You still have the opportunity to avoid long-term damage by resolving this matter in a fair and equitable way that recognises that we all tried to do the right thing," Mr Wolfowitz said, according to a statement released by his lawyers. 02br
00Earlier on Tuesday, the White House said it still supported Mr Wolfowitz, but added that all options were still open. 02br
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00 "We've made clear that we support Paul Wolfowitz," said spokesman Tony Snow, adding that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served. 02br
00After the hearing in Washington Mr Wolfowitz's lawyer Robert Bennett his client's performance justified "the full support he has from leadership in the White House". 02br
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00In the above it would be incorrect to write '00that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'.02br
00It should be the present tense. It should be '00that the bank's "best interests" also has to be served.02br
00This is an ongoing affair. What do you think?02br
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02br 02br 00 Wrong formulation. 02br 02br 00 And you'd have been wrong anyway. The original is correct.

— Marius Hancu

  • 02br 02br 00 Wrong formulation.
  • 02br 02br 00 And you'd have been wrong anyway.
  • The original is correct.
  • 02br 02br 00 When you see something in the press, that has been normally reviewed by editors, and those guys know better English than most other people, sorry.
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0>01i00In the above it 01font00would02font00 be incorrect to write '02i00that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'.02br
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00 Wrong formulation. You should have said:02br
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01i01b00In my opinion02b00, in the above it 01b
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01cite10Rex12cite10In the above it would be incorrect to write '10that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'. 11font10Yes12font12br
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10It should be the present tense. It should be '10that the bank's "best interests" also has to be served. 11font
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0 I thank both of you for the excellent replies.02br
00Marius wrote the following:02br
01i00In the above it 01font00would02font00 be incorrect to write '02i00that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'.02br
00 Wrong formulation.02br
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01cite10Yankee12cite11blockquote
11cite20Rex22cite20In the above it would be incorrect to write '20that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'. 21del21font20Yes 22font22del21font20 21font
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0>In the above 01font00it would be incorrect02font00 to write '00that the bank's "best interests" also had to be served'.02br
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01font00It would be02font00 isn't appropriate because it's already there (in the above), it's already written. 02br
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0 All right, what you say is that it doesn't fit for the given context. These minute differences are tricky, as far as I am concerned.02br
00I have seen umpteen times people have written the following words when correcting sentences.01h3

00I would write ...02h3

00You may have written like this way too. 02br
00So when correcting sentences, it is ide
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0 Forget about other cases and think about your original posting. That's where your problem was/is. 01b02br
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00 You cannot use the subjunctive/conditional for something which already exists: The quote about W ... is already there. 02br
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00 You must say: 01i00it is/was incorrect02i00, not 01i01font
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0I have some plans to buy a Linksys router. I could tell you one of the following:02br
001. I will buy a Linksys router. [ This means today or tomorrow, when I go to town, I will go to a shop and buy one.]02br
002. I would buy a Linksys router. [ Here I am not certain as to the purchase.] 01font00Not really. This needs some sort of condition
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0 Hi Rex02br
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00When an expert is asked to comment on whether a sentence is correct, it is more polite or less dogmatic to use02br
01i00would 02i00when a recommendation is made -- especially if there is more than one possible way to write/say 02br
00something correctly. So you might also think of 01i00would02i
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0 Thanks everybody for all the valuble comments.02br
00Yankee wrote the following:02br
00When an expert is asked to comment on whether a sentence is correct, it is more polite or less dogmatic to use02br
01i00would 02i00when a recommendation is made -- especially if there is more than one possible way to write/say 02br
00somethin
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