MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver (Italics)

Doug Millison pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 26 10:08:10 CDT 2002


jbor
> Modal verbs express degrees of certainty[...]

In this morning's funny papers (BC):

Teacher to class:  "Someone give me a sentence with a
direct object."

Student:  "You are very pretty."

Teacher:  "What's the object?"

Student:  "A good report card."


...full marks for jbor!



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