Only if you're from Cali...

 

No.


You're right, I wouldn't.

"He was trying to learn" is in the indicative mood, denoting a statement of fact.

"If he were trying to learn" is in the subjunctive mood, denoting a statement of less than fact: a hypothetical, a contingency, or the like. The key is the use of the word "if"; that creates a subjunctive mood.

The past subjunctive of "to be" is "were", for all persons, singular or plural:

If I were . . . .
If you were . . . .
If he were . . . .
If we were . . . .
If you (two) were . . . .
If they were . . . .

 

Today at work we received two e-mails about cars in the parking lot that had their headlights on.

Evidently, the author of these e-mails wasn't sure if he should write, "your car" or, "you're car".

He came up with an elegant solution:

He wrote, "your'e car" both times.

Ick.

 

 

now a days i dont find that 2 odd..sad to say but very tru

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician

 

Oh man a real world example. Here is an article from a newspaper. Read the article then read the response to the article below.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=...id=169546&rfi=6

 

JerseyGirl, More alarming to me than the grammar of the email is the fact that he was asking for user name and password.

That is just something you don't give out to anyone. If he was doing an assignment and needed a user name and password it is very unlikely that the teacher who gave him the assignment did not give the user name and pwd to be used.

I would have replied:

Yo, get ur pwd from som3 otr fl!
bg off lsr!


:-) :-)

 

Can't tell from the information given, but it's possible that he just needed an username and password to log in to a computer workstation...

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by S2K Fan
Maybe because you're a member of S2Ki he figures you're cool like that!