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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:16 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:40 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:28 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:39 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:22 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:07 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:46 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:58 am
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:59 am
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dark_elf MyOwnBestCritic Only the tense is different. "Sleeping" is a present progressive (most of the time), and indicates that he is sleeping now and will also be sleeping later. "To sleep" is infinitive and means that you NEVER EVER EVER want him to sleep there, not even in the past. Both are perfectly correct, and both could be used. That is what I was thinking too.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I agree.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:18 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:31 am
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I actually have two problems with these sentences.
First, neither have any punctuation. Since, we are reading a sentence to figure out how it sounds, we will all say them outloud in different ways. Some may just say them as if they have periods on them. Others, depending on thier mood, may yell one or the other of them making an exclamation point necessary. Punctuation gives the reader the ability to imagine the auditory emphasis placed on the sentence.
Second, the use of a contraction here is, though grammatically correct, inappropriate. The use of a contraction here is almost lazy in a grammatical context.
But to the real question at hand. Both are actually correct, if not annoying, with proper punctuation and tonal inflection.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:43 pm
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