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From: ftilley@indirect.com (Felix E. Tilley Jr.)
Subject: Re: I aren't
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: So we attempt whatever strikes us as the best compromise, and "aren't"
: seems to work.  But, like using "wake" in the present perfect, the
: best solution isn't always good enough for some speakers,
: and they simply learn to avoid the construction.  Luckily, it's
: a fairly rare occasion when one has to ask a tag question in the
: first person.

:   --------------------------------------------
:  -John Lawler               <jlawler@umich.edu>
:   Linguistics Program   University of Michigan
:  "..and, who knows? Maybe the horse will sing."


Please tell me more about using "wake" in the present perfect.  I have always
felt so uncomfortable about this that I use circumlocutions to avoid using it.

Felix Tilley



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