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<private> No, Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third. That's the bit. So when I say "What's on Second." You say "I don't know." Then I answer back, "third base." shhhh it'll be funny. hehe</private>
<private> No, Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third. That's the bit. So when I say "What's on Second." You say "I don't know." Then I answer back, "third base." shhhh it'll be funny. hehe</private>
What's on second.
For those here who have never seen one of the greatest comedy routines ever
Received a rep by someone correcting my English. How about helping me? "No one cared if I were embarrassed," is what I wrote. The correction says it should be "... if I was embarrassed."
I'm a little late finding this one.
If you said "no one cared", you're already committed to the indicative. You are saying they might have had a reason to care, but didn't, and therefore "I was embarrassed, and no one cared."
If you want to go with subjunctive, and throw the whole thing into an unreality world, then you would say "No one would have cared if I were embarrassed". Meaning you were not embarrassed, and even if you were, no one would have cared.
"If" in this case is not being used in a conditional sense, but rather as an idiomatic replacement for "that". "No one cared that I was embarrassed".
I worked for a physician who wrote this spelling, "kernel," for an Air Force "colonel." When I told her this was incorrect, she gave me a bewildered look and asked, "What's wrong with it?"
If you said "no one cared", you're already committed to the indicative. You are saying they might have had a reason to care, but didn't, and therefore "I was embarrassed, and no one cared."
If you want to go with subjunctive, and throw the whole thing into an unreality world, then you would say "No one would have cared if I were embarrassed". Meaning you were not embarrassed, and even if you were, no one would have cared.
"If" in this case is not being used in a conditional sense, but rather as an idiomatic replacement for "that". "No one cared that I was embarrassed".
Well, hell, jtur. I thought for sure you were going to correct Suzy...
The mention of erudite reminds me of something I was thinking of yesterday.
That is the incorrect but very common use of plural were instead of the singular was.
"If I were to do that.....", just sounds 'classier'. Or maybe snobbier is the better word
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