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An interesting construction I came across just now here: the pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who's said some things that a lot of people don't want a President who believes.

That's the sort of thing that makes me wonder whether English wouldn't be "better" if it had mandatory, or at least optional, resumptive pronouns.

Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 04:53 (UTC)
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Compare the grammatical (at least for me) "That's not a book I'd want to read ___", which has the verb at the end, too.

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