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Collocating the adjective "complicate".

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#46 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 0:03 am Collocating the adjective "complicate".

Molly wrote:

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On the contrary. Not "should have": "would have".

Well, we're back to the unmodalised assertions.

Which part of

Quote:

"would have"

strikes you as unmodalised?

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#47 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 0:17 am Collocating the adjective "complicate".

Molly wrote:

I would say that good writers do that and poor writers don't. Is Mr P saying that the writer of the text which was "full of typos" is a good writer?

On the general point, though "good writers" may take care to draw the reader's attention to unusual usages, not all writers who draw the reader's attention to unusual usages are "good".

On the particular point, which typo-ridden text do you mean? There have been so many.

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