Re: Aspects of English Grammar

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:19:08PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>         Tomorrow at 5:55 I will be about to get out of bed.
> it's not just me; my wife finds it perfectly unobjectionable as well,
> and I imagine if I took a survery of my officemates they would agree.
The officemates will have to wait for the morrow, an informal chatroom
poll of four random people - all native United Statesians in their 20s
to 40s, having grown up in diverse places from Kentucky to Texas to
California - finds unanimous agreement that the above sentence is
syntatically valid (although the consensus is that it's also
semantically horrid since nobody in their right mind would get up so
early. :))

-Mark