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Old August 10th 04, 06:53 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, DeepSearcher wrote:

El Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:55:11 +0100, Andrew P Smith escribió:

In article , Matthew P Jones
writes
A large whole has been dug with supports put in.


I think you mean 'hole'.

Tut tut, your grammar is terrible.....


With all due respect, Andrew, your diagnosis is faulty. It's not
Mathew's grammar but his spelling that is playing up. Grammatically, the
whole sentence hangs together very nicely; he's even used a passive
voice


I thought that, in readability terms, the passive was frowned upon these
days? Sorry - that people frown upon it?

tom

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