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  2. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  3. Pluperfect - Wikipedia

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    In standard Swedish, the pluperfect (pluskvamperfekt) is similar to the pluperfect in a number of other Germanic languages, but with a slightly different word order, and is formed with the preterite form of ha (have in English), i.e. hade (had in English), plus the supine form of the main verb: När jag kom dit hade han gått hem - When I ...

  4. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  5. Talk:James while John had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 26, 2001) was punctuating the English sentence: had had had had had had had had had had had had would have been correct. No citable references to it found, so far.2605:6000:ED0D:9E00:1882:5562:E08A:9A93 00:14, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

  6. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  7. Counterfactual conditional - Wikipedia

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    Given such a model, the sentence "Y would be y had X been x" (formally, X = x > Y = y) is defined as the assertion: If we replace the equation currently determining X with a constant X = x, and solve the set of equations for variable Y, the solution obtained will be Y = y. This definition has been shown to be compatible with the axioms of ...

  8. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The verb to have does not use progressive forms when it expresses possession, broadly understood (I have a brother, not *I'm having a brother), but it does use them in its active meanings (I'm having a party; She's having a baby; He was having a problem starting his car).

  9. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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    If you had written (not: would have written), it would have put my mind at rest. However, some varieties of English regularly use would (contracted to 'd) and would have (' d have) in counterfactual condition clauses, although this is often considered non-standard: If you'd leave (standard: you left) now, you'd be on time.

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