So, which words don't you understand:

a) Dave
b) is
c) stooopid

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:36:53 +0100, "Donal" said:

Bwahahahaha! You mean that they were NOT there, but you *thought* that
they were?

No, I mean that when one's understanding of the English language reaches
beyond the sixth grade he comes to realize there are something called
"understood" words--words that do not appear in the literal text but that
must be regarded as present for a correct analysis of the sentence's
grammatical structure and meaning. For another example of understood
words,
see the second bullet point of

http://www.grammardoctor.com/archive6.htm

For a somewhat pedantic discourse on the topic, see

http://www.geocities.com/eowilliams11/guide.html

And for a truly dense paper on the topic, full of jargon, see

http://home.hum.uva.nl/fg/working_papers/wpfg76.html#06


Dave
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