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Re: Inversion for subjunctive (was "Get" passive)

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 23:27
Thanks for the clarification!
"Do you got a pen"?? To me, that's (to be a stuffy old pedant) completely
ungrammatical.
Mike
> > "I've got a cold", sure, but "do you have a pen" would be the norm for > the second - in relaxed settings, even "do you got a pen", but > probably in that case shortened to just "Got a pen?". >

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