hey dickhead, nobody gives a ****.


"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:19:07 +0100, "Donal" said:

The word "cheaply" is qualifying the word "hold". "Hold" is a verb.
Therefore "cheaply" is an adverb.

Now, Dave. The word "so" before the word "cheaply" makes a slight
change
to its gramatical status. Are you capable of explaining it to us?

Thank God we had Jefferson rather than Donal writing the Declaration of
Independence. Otherwise it would have come out reading "We hold these
truths
to be self-evidently."

The correct word in the Declaration is, as Jefferson wrote,
"self-evident."
And the correct word in the Post would have been "cheap." Why? Because of
the words "to be." "Be" in its variations (is, are, etc.) is a reflexive
verb. It's followed by either a noun (or pronoun) or an adjective
referring
in either case back to the subject of the sentence or clause. E.g. "I am
cold." In the case of the Post's line, the words "to be" are there, but
silently--they're understood. Thus ""How shameful that the commission's
attack dogs hold their sacrifices" [to be] "so" _cheap_. "Cheap" refers
back
via the reflexive "hold [to be]" to the noun "sacrifices," not to the verb
"hold."

Dave
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CS27