On 5/2/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
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> Ryan Air and similar companies have incredibly
> cheap flights all over Europe these days. One
> guy at the Tolkien linguistic conference in
> Stockholm last summer had flown(*) from Belgium
> for 30 Euro *cents* -- for the actual ticket,
> the airport fees etc. cost more.
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> (* Is that the right form/spelling?)
>
Yes. However, the simple past would probably be used here (as you do
in the sentence that follows) rather than the perfect past.
--larry
P.S. I feel kind of silly pointing out tiny "flaws" (if you can even
call them that) in other peoples' English when the flaws in my (name
of your language here) start at "gargantuan" and go up from there.