[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

re:GRAMMAR!

>>From: salamander@MADNET.COM
>>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:45:32 -0500 
>>Subject: GRAMMAR!

>>Scott,
>>About the American/British grammar thing...I was thinking that just
>>today. :) "Ledbetter," I says to myself, "Isn't it a very British thing
>>to use plural verbs? I believe it is. One of those little variations
>>between American and British grammar. Sort of like how Americans spell
>>words with z's when the British like to spell them with s's instead. How
>>silly of me not to have thought of this sooner."

                               -Yellow Ledbetter,>>

Not silly at all!  I thought of another example.  On the Beatles "It's Only A
Northern Song", George sings:

     If you're listening late at night,
     You may think the band are not quite right.

Scott