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Grammar Debate - Answers?
« on: July 27, 2011, 06:51:14 PM »
Grammar Debate! The following headline appeared in the newpaper. It should be "run" not "ran," correct?

The headline: Whaler may have ran over other boat in fatal Navesink River collision.
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2011, 06:57:18 PM »
Agreed.
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2011, 07:00:01 PM »
Agreed as well - it should be 'run'.
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2011, 07:20:56 PM »
Yup.  The verb tense being used is the modal perfect, which contains first a modal verb (may) then the auxiliary verb "have" then the past participle of the main verb, in this case "run."  The past participle of run is run.  So it should have been "may have run over."
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2011, 07:41:26 PM »
Quote from: ChillyWilly on July 27, 2011, 06:51:14 PM
Grammar Debate! The following headline appeared in the newpaper. It should be "run" not "ran," correct?

The headline: Whaler may have ran over other boat in fatal Navesink River collision.

Was it the Sun?
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2011, 07:52:54 PM »
It was a US paper ;-) just something a few of us were debating...

I knew there are some teachers on here.
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2011, 08:26:17 PM »
Quote from: historyenne on July 27, 2011, 07:20:56 PM
Yup.  The verb tense being used is the modal perfect, which contains first a modal verb (may) then the auxiliary verb "have" then the past participle of the main verb, in this case "run."  The past participle of run is run.  So it should have been "may have run over."

Exactly this. Well put historyenne! :)
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2011, 02:57:03 AM »
Quote from: ChillyWilly on July 27, 2011, 07:52:54 PM
It was a US paper ;-) just something a few of us were debating...

I knew there are some teachers on here.

The Navesink is near Red Bank, NJ. :) Let me guess...the APP?
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2011, 04:15:21 AM »
Quote from: aimlesstraveler on July 28, 2011, 02:57:03 AM
The Navesink is near Red Bank, NJ. :) Let me guess...the APP?
sounds like it could indeed be the asbury park press :)
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Re: Grammar Debate - Answers?
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2011, 09:45:12 AM »
Yep the APP...

I cant wait we are taking the kids to RB when we go to NJ....Windmill cheese fries here I come!
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